The guiding principle behind a Results Only Work Environment (ROWE) that makes it indeed UNIQUE has been mentioned below –
Giving PEOPLE CONTROL over WHAT they do and HOW they do increases HAPPINESS, ENGAGEMENT and sense of FULFILLMENT.
Adopted from Cal Newport’s book So Good They Can’t Ignore You
Human beings are driven by a sense of control to achieve fulfillment and a ROWE taps into this inner drive of humans.
The following 3 scenarios as mentioned by Cal Newport in his book So Good They Can’t Ignore You, may not be the most favorable ones to adopt a CRAFTSMAN MINDSET & can lead to detrimental results.
1. The job presents few opportunities to distinguish yourself by developing relevant skills that are rare and valuable.
2. The job focuses on something you think is useless or perhaps even actively bad for the world.
3. The job forces you to work with people you really dislike.
Thus being aware of these scenarios can help us avoid pitfalls while trying to force fit a CRAFTSMAN MINDSET.
Cal Newport in his book, “So Good They Can’t Ignore You”, lists out the pros and cons between PASSION and CRAFTSMAN mindset. He goes on to prove why CRAFTSMAN MINDSET is the preferred way forward for getting long lasting success in life.
Whereas the craftsman mindset focuses on what you can offer the world, the passion mindset focuses instead on what the world can offer you. This mindset is how most people approach their working lives.
Adopted from Cal Newport’s book So Good They Can’t Ignore You
Thus unlike how most people approach their lives, great people adopt a CRAFTSMAN MINDSET to get long term success in life.
The following insight which has been adopted from Cal Newport’s book So Good That they Can’t Ignore You, emphasizes the need of a CRAFTSMAN mindset for building up the necessary CAREER CAPITAL to master rare and invaluable skills.
“If your goal is to love what you do, you must first build up ‘career capital’ by mastering rare and valuable skills, and then cash in this capital for the traits that define great work.”
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Cal Newport in his book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You, talks about adoption of CRAFTSMAN MINDSET and deliberate practice to get out of comfort zone & taste success.
The following insight from the book summarizes the idea of adoption of CRAFTSMAN MINDSET and its relevance in doing work that we love, as against the more popular PASSION MINDSET.
“Don’t obsess over discovering your true calling. Instead, master rare and valuable skills. Once you build up the career capital that these skills generate, invest it wisely. Use it to acquire control over what you do and how you do it, and identify and act on a life-changing mission. This philosophy is less sexy than the fantasy of dropping everything to go live among the monks in the mountains, but it’s also a philosophy that has been shown time and again to actually work.”
Adopted from Cal Newport’s So Good That They Can’t Ignore You
Thus getting a dream job that suits our passion is more difficult than getting to a job of our choice by adopting a CRAFTSMAN MINDSET
The following insight has been adopted from Cal Newport’s book So Good That They Can’t Ignore You.
“If you want something that’s both rare and valuable, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return—this is Supply and Demand 101. It follows that if you want a great job, you need something of great value to offer in return.”
Adopted from Cal Newport’s So Good They Can’t Ignore You
Thus to get something rare and valuable we need to be ready to offer something unique and priceless in return as well.
“The good news about deliberate practice is that it will push you past this plateau and into a realm where you have little competition.”
Adopted from Cal Newport’s book So Good..
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The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Cal Newport’s book Deep Work
“You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it. Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it’s instead like a muscle that tires.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Cal Newport’s book Deep Work
“Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.”
The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Cal Newport’s book Deep Work and throws light on the virtues of adopting a craftsman mindset.
“If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset (“what can the world offer me?”) and instead adopt the craftsman mindset (“what can I offer the world?”).”