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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Ep. 184: Cal Newport Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Ep. 184: Cal Newport Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio