Here's a short passage from the above article on the importance of creating value. The author, Cal Newport, is one of the best writers today on expertise and the value of "deep work". His blog Study Hacks is a great resource for learning how to be more productive and study more effectively.
"Here’s the reality for almost every professional pursuit: shipping things that are unambiguously valuable generates significantly more interesting and high-return opportunities than exposing yourself to lots of different people and ideas.
You probably don’t, in other words, need to invest dozens of hour a week into cultivating your social media community, or thousands of dollars a year attending feel good conferences, to stumble into the Next Big Thing in your career.
A significantly more effective path is to instead ship things that catch peoples’ attention."
No comments:
Post a Comment