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So Good They Can't Ignore You
- Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Dave Mallow
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,730
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,860
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,853
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed - preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work - but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. After making his case against passion, Newport sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up loving what they do.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Become a craftsman
- By A. Yoshida on 07-19-17
- So Good They Can't Ignore You
- Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Dave Mallow
Good Idea's, but Frustrated Writing Style
Reviewed: 10-24-23
Overall, I have to say that this isn't a bad book. It has some good advice, and if you are trying to improve your career and find out what you want to do with your life, then this is the book for you. It has a lot of insight, mostly divulged through case studies of either career successes or failures, but lacks studies that would give it a quantitative backbone. That's not to say that what Cal Newport says is inherently wrong, just that any critical reader that is attempting to find the truth of the matter must be acutely aware of in attempting to apply this advice. It's limited by the open ended nature of it, therefore it won't help you in a specific field, so much as it is an attempt to help you decide what and how to do well in any career field of which you have skills in.
Before I talk about the writing style, I would like to say that this book really did have good advice. If nothing else, my low review of it is a reflection of personal taste and of it's writing style and not of the contents of the book. Therefore, this is to be taken personally, and not as a reflection of the nature of the advice in the book:
I hated the writing style. It seemed that after the author would tell a story about someone successful, they would go off and say (as if it added anything to the book), "-blah blah blah, and you get 'so good, they can't ignore you.'" Yes, yes, I get it. It's the title of the book, and technically it does fit within the scope of what you are talking about. But gosh darn! Do you have to say it every other page? It doesn't even deviate from that wording! It drove me nuts. On top of that, the author seems to not take his own advice about getting so many skills that you can break away from conventional work, and essentially work on your own terms, but the author himself admitted that he doesn't do this. Yes, he points it out, but that does nothing to his credibility. On top of that, you would think that admitting this he wouldn't claim to be on the same level as these very successful people (who, for the most part, have so much autonomy at their own work that any other successful person would have a very difficult time comparing themselves to), but he does the opposite. In fact, the last few chapters are all about him, as if stating that he is comparable to these people. Perhaps this was not his intent, but this rubs me wrong.
Either way, it is a book that one can read and learn from.
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Paradise
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 212
In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- By Kennedi Hill on 11-07-19
- Paradise
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Complex Story Requiring Close Reading
Reviewed: 12-05-20
It was very enjoyable but confusing to listen to. Recommend getting the book so that you could follow along and or get a character guide
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