I read around 60 books per year and this might be my favorite in 2022. It is full of direct advice and interesting stories, and received an easy 5 stars rating.

This book has a very un-sexy but extremely sobering message about how to invest your life to turn a job to a great and satisfying job, instead of waste you life searching for a great job.

95% of the book is anecdotes about unbelievable people. The narrator is intensely boring and you’ll want to listen to it on at least 1.25x - 2x speed. It is said to be 6 hrs 28 mins and it was a real grind to get through it. It probably could have been 1-2 hours easy. That being said, I give it 4 stars because the thesis of the book is eye opening.

Really frank and honest read on how passion is not everything. Helped me make sense of my disjointed experiences by summing it as 'career capital'

Effectively destroys the "passion" argument.

Definitely worth the money and the time spent reading it. Newport provides an interesting take on passion as it relates to a career with numerous examples. However, at times I felt the flow was off from one topic to the next. Furthermore, the constant review after each section and then at the end of chapters was unnecessary. Lastly, an argument could be made as to how the persons of example in the book would relate to the average individual. Many of them were graduates of ivy league schools and/or young business prodigies. With that being said I would recommend picking it up for anyone out there with the goal of finding their dream job on their mind.