So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport

This manifesto on success really resonated with me. It reinforced ideas I've been developing about autonomy, control, and craftsmanship. I've been becoming increasingly frustrated with the passion principle lately, and this manifesto strikes a welcome balance. It offers the credo that a satisfying and successful work life comes through "working right" not finding the "right" work. To me, "right" means perfect. If we wait until the perfect thing comes along, we will never begin. Best to begin something and make it, slowly, through incremental changes, into something better, something of valuable, something we can be passionate about. It's really an issue of the chicken or the egg. Newport says egg first, and I agree.