Follow Your Passion is Terrible Advice. Here’s Why.

A super popular piece of career advice is to follow your passion, but actually that’s not the best thing you can do to find a career you actually love. In this video, I discuss the lessons from Cal Newport’s book So Good They Can’t Ignore You about how to build a career you love. Enjoy x You can get the book here: or if you want to read a great condensed summary of the book, head over to Shortform - Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:40 Don’t follow your passion 4:24 Develop a craftsmen mindset 12:13 Cash in your career capital for control 16:42 Finding a mission 🍿WATCH NEXT How to Find the Perfect Career: Atomic Habits Book Summary: What Makes People Successful: How to Learn Anything Faster: 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - MY FREE ONLINE COURSES: 🚀 Productivity Masterclass - Principles and Tools to Boost Your Productivity - 🎓 How to Study for Exams - An Evidence-Based Masterclass - 🎬 YouTube for Beginners - Everything You Need To Know To Start - MY CREATOR COURSES 🎬 Part-Time YouTuber Academy - My 6-week live online course on becoming a part-time YouTuber → 🏆 Creatorpreneur - My flagship course for scaling up your creative side-hustle → 🗣 Camera Confidence - My self-paced course on how to improve your creativity, career, or communication skills → MY FAVOURITE GEAR 🎥 My YouTube Camera Gear - ⌨️ My Keyboard - Wireless Coral mechanical keyboard (Cherry Blue) - 📝 My favourite iPad Screen Protector - Paperlike - 🎒 My Desk Accessories Todo List - Ugmonk - 🎙 Check out my weekly podcast, Deep Dive - - It’s also available on all podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts etc. MY FAVOURITE TOOLS 🚀 VidIQ - How I optimise my YouTube videos - ✍️ Shortform - The BEST summaries of books - 📚 Readwise - How I remember what I read - 🎵 Epidemic Sound - Where I get my music (amazing for YouTubers) - MY KEY LINKS 🌍 My website / blog - 🐦 Twitter - 📸 Instagram - WHO AM I: I’m Ali, a YouTuber, podcaster, soon-to-be author and ex-Doctor working in London, UK. I make videos that explore the strategies and tools that help us live happier, healthier and more productive lives. I also have a weekly podcast called Deep Dive (), and I write a weekly email newsletter that contains some quick thoughts links to interesting things (). PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜