WDS 2012 - Cal Newport on the Complexity of Living a Passionate Life

"The path to a passionate life is often way more complex than the simple advice 'follow your passion' would suggest."

Cal Newport is a writer and an assistant professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. In his writing, Newport applies a systematic approach to decoding patterns of success. His first three books, published by Random House, focused on the world of students, offering unconventional, evidence-based approaches to succeeding in school (hint: do less). His fourth book, which argues that “follow your passion” is bad career advice.

You've been told you should follow your passion, to do what you love and the money will follow. But how sound is this advice? Cal Newport argues that it's astonishingly wrong.

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