A review by ktcarlston
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport

3.0

Because I really believe in Newport's thesis - I really, really liked this book. I have always been troubled when people give advice saying, "just follow your passion". What is my passion? Does being passionate about something mean you are supposed to be inherently the best at it? Newport instead says, "gain valuable skills, become so good at something that eventually passion will follow". I have found this to be much more descriptive of how things work for me. Anyway - yes, I liked this book, but if you are looking for something that is Malcolm Gladwell or Daniel Pink - you'll soon recognize that this book isn't as highly researched or well thought out as that - instead the evidence provided is much more anecdotal - which didn't bother me because of my own bias towards the thesis. But what did bother me? Recapping recapping and recapping. I got it. You don't need to tell me 1,000 times I just finished the chapter.