My guest today is Cal Newport, an American non-fiction author and associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University.

The topic is passion.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Alan Watts
• Why following your passion isn’t such a great idea from Newport’s perspective
• The notion of deliberate practice and the 10000 hour rule, falling back on simplistic strategies that fail
• Passion following success as the true gauge
• Misconceptions about passion
• Thinking of passion as a side-effect of running your career in the right way
• Overcoming difficulty as a necessary step in the process
• The work and analysis Newport has done looking at top chess players
• The systematic aspect of gaining skill and its ties to passion
• Anxiety and failure

Jump in!

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