There’s a certain kind of silence that comes after you hear advice repeated too many times. “Follow your passion.” It sounds good. It feels right. It almost has to be true. And then a book like So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport walks in—not loudly, not aggressively—but with the kind of calm certainty that makes you uncomfortable. Because it doesn’t just question that advice. It quietly dismantles it. I remember pausing early in the book—not because I di
