Career Capital: Why 'Follow Your Passion' Fails
\\\"Follow your passion\\\" is the most repeated career advice of the last fifty years, and one of the most expensive — it tells you to wait for a feeling that was never how great work begins. This course replaces the myth with a single, durable model: your career is a capital account. You build a balance of rare, valuable skill through deliberate practice, then you spend it on the things people actually want — control over your work, and eventually a mission. Across seven short lessons — drawing on So Good They Can't Ignore You, the science of deliberate practice, self-determination theory, and the research on how interests actually develop — you'll learn why passion follows mastery rather than preceding it, how to make a deposit instead of just reading the balance, and when you've earned the right to spend. You'll leave with The Career-Capital Audit, a one-page check you can re-run for the rest of your working life, so the next time the quit-and-chase itch hits you act on a balance reading instead of a mood.
