So Good They Cant Ignore You Flashcards
the craftsman mindset
An approach to your working life in which you focus on the value of what you are offering to the world.
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
“A quote from comedian Steve Martin that captures what is needed to build a working life you love. It is excerpted from the following longer quote, which Martin gave in a 2007 interview with Charlie Rose when asked what his advice was for aspiring entertainers: “Nobody ever takes note of [my advice], because it’s not the answer they wanted to hear. What they want to hear is ‘Here’s how you get an agent, here’s how you write a script,’… but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’ ”
career capital
A description of the skills you have that are rare and valuable to the working world. This is the key currency for creating work you love.
the career capital theory of great work
“The traits that define great work are rare and valuable.
Supply and demand says that if you want these traits, you need rare and valuable skills to offer in return. Think of these rare and valuable skills you can offer as your career capital.
The craftsman mindset, with its relentless focus on being “so good they can’t ignore you,” is a strategy well suited for acquiring career capital. This is why it trumps the passion mindset if your goal is to have work you love.”
the 10,000-hour rule
A rule, well-known to performance scientists, describing the amount of practice time required to master a skill
deliberate practice
The style of difficult practice required to continue to improve at a task. Florida State University professor Anders Ericsson, who coined the term in the early 1990s, describes it formally as an “activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an individual’s performance.” Deliberate practice requires you to stretch past where you are comfortable and then receive ruthless feedback on your performance.
