Rule #1 Don't Follow Your Passion
- Most people don't know their Passion. Steve Jobs Scriptural example.
Rule #2 Be So Good They Can't Ignore You
- Craftsman Mindset: a focus on what value you’re producing in your job, and the passion mindset, a focus on what value your job offers you.
- Build the Career Capital: valuable skills
- Deliberate Practice: be at uncomfortable learning zone.
Rule #3 Importance of Control
- Use Career Capital in exchange for control (first trap)
- Courage to fight for Control (Second Trap)
- Law of Financial Viability Test: if people willing to pay you
Rule #4 Importance of Mission
- Adjacent Possible. Need to get to the edge of your field to do exciting things.
- Little bets to get feedback
- Law of remarkability. Make things remarkable
