优秀到不能被忽视 | So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport

Cal Newport's clearly-written manifesto flies in the face of conventional wisdom by suggesting that it should be a person's talent and skill - and not necessarily their passion - that determines their career path.

Newport, who graduated from Dartmouth College (Phi Beta Kappa) and earned a PhD. from MIT, contends that trying to find what drives us, instead of focusing on areas in which we naturally excel, is ultimately harmful and frustrating to job seekers.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/332.html

The title is a direct quote from comedian Steve Martin who, when once asked why he was successful in his career, immediately replied: "Be so good they can't ignore you" and that's the main basis for Newport's book. Skill and ability trump passion.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/332.html

Inspired by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs' famous Stanford University commencement speech in which Jobs urges idealistic grads to chase their dreams, Newport takes issue with that advice, claiming that not only is thsi advice Pollyannish, but that Jobs himself never followed his own advice.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/332.html

From there, Newport presents compelling scientific and contemporary case study evidence that the key to one's career success is to find out what you do well, where you have built up your 'career capital,' and then to put all of your efforts into that direction.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/332.html

为什么追随自己的激情，却得不到想要的结果？文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/332.html

为什么付出同样的时间，别人却比你更出色?文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/332.html

为什么别人在做自己“喜欢”的工作，而你却不能？文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/332.html

为什么明明在为生活工作，却仍感觉不能自主自己的生活？文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/332.html

在这个浮躁的世界上，没人欠你一份好工作,你要自己去努力争取,而且这个过程肯定不会一帆风顺。《优秀到不能被忽视》是写给每一个职场人的醒脑剂，也是在“鸡汤”和“鸡血”盛行之下对工作和人生的深度思考和探寻。文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/332.html

作者卡尔·纽波特呈现了对待职业生涯的两种不同方式。一种是工匠思维,关注自己能给世界带来什么;另一种是激情思维,关注世界能给自己带来什么。在《优秀到不能被忽视》中，他沿着一条清晰的逻辑，提出关于人生和职场的4大规则，教你一步步获取自己的职场资本、自主力、使命感，让你从探究自己是谁、工作意义是什么、正确的工作是什么中解脱出来，通过努力创建属于自己的一切。文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/332.html