May be 8/10 times,if you interview someone who really loves what they're doing.They probably started without a clear cut vision that “this is what I'm meant to do,” but what they did commit to was getting very good. Getting very good at skills. Becoming very impactful. Building mastery. And that for these 8/10 cases, the passion follows the mastery.
So, we have decades of research on what leads people to actually feel sort of motivation towards their job, what leads them to be satisfied. And it turns out that the traits have very little to do with this intrinsic match, it has more to do with things like impact, mastery, connection with people. Doing something worth while,getting better at a skill that's valued.
If you get these generic traits, you tend to enjoy your job more and more. In fact, research shows that if you can take a group of people who all had the same job and they interviewed them to try to understand how they felt about it, the main differentiating factor on what separated someone from feeling like the job was a calling versus just a job was how long they'd been doing it. Cause the longer they'd been doing it, the better they got at it, the bigger sense of impact they had, the more connection they had to people. And so, in my book, I basically flip the script and said what I'm actually observing out there is that may be 8/10 times.
If you interview someone who really loves what they're doing, they probably started without a clear cut vision that “this is what I'm meant to do,” but what they did commit to was getting very good.Getting very good at skills. Becoming very impactful. Building mastery.And that for these 8/10 cases, the passion follows the mastery.
Well, I say you should look to professional musicians,professional athletes, professional chess players. People who have to get good in a world that has a well-defined competency hierarchy. Where you have a chess ranking and you can't run away from it. You have a batting average.You can't get away from it. Watch how they train.Because in their world, there's a lot of effort that has gone into how do you systematically improve. And what you see is that they deliberately practice. And there's really no shortcut to deliberate practice to gaining mastery in almost any field. But in knowledge work in particular, so in this sort of whole array of sort of various creative and other types of professions,we don't think that way and people don't actually do a lot of the sort of systematic practice and so that's why in “So Good They Can't Ignore You,”
I go and I hang out with a professional guitar player. And I say, “okay, I wanna watch you practice.”In this case, there is actually a good reason to do so,because this is someone who started playing guitar at the same time that I started playing guitar. At the age where like I was not that great, I played in a rock band, we were like ok, he was being, had a record deal, was being heralded as like this talent in new acoustic guitar playing.So I said great, I want to understand why did he become really, really good and I didn't.Watching him practice, in this sort of musician's frat house he lived in at Boston with all these other musicians, answered the question 100%.He was so intense.
When he was practising the guitar,that he would forget to breathe. So he'd be doing this.He was trying to get a lick faster, so the way he got the lick faster is,“let me play it at about 10% faster than I can comfortably play it.” He was so concentrated that he would forget to breathe,so he would do these ragged gasps every once in a while when his body would force him to take in air.
That's the whole difference. I never did that.That's stretching, you're like. What I need to do is be better at this lick.And so, I'm gonna push myself beyond where I'm comfortable.”So, deep work, which is just my term for concentrating very intensely.You give something intense focus with.
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