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Adam Grant’s podcast “Re:Thinking” (via Work/Life) recently featured an interview with Mark Cuban. I agree with Grant that the best insight was that the advice to ‘follow your passion’ is flawed.  Instead, we should follow our “effort”, in order to achieve success and stick-to-it-ness.

This is what another writer, Cal Newport, has been saying for years:  don’t follow your passion, instead, get good and see where it takes you.  Be so good they can’t ignore you.

We put effort into getting good at things that matter to us. So, it’s insightful to pay attention to what you spend time on.