Summary

1. Take a look at the self-determination rules, and figure out if you have motivation in your job or your hobbies, that make you feel like you have autonomy, make you feel like you're competent and make you feel like you have a connection to other people try also to determine Do you have a job, a career or a calling?

1. Try to figure out those key aspects of a job that would just make you that much better little tiny skill sets that would make you one of these special people that hold something inside of your job inside or your industry that would make you fantastic. Start to figure out time and a study process to hone those skills.

1. Develop the Craftsman mindset where you're going to take your career or your hobby life and you're going to finely hone it with specified stretch goals that are going to help you become so good they can't ignore you.

1. Take little bets try to come up with little plans that can help you prove that not only are you good at this thing, but that it's a skill that would be valuable to your career, or to your personal life.

Challenge

Try to list out three skills that would accelerate you to the next level, either in your career or your home life. That would just make you exceptional. And start coming up with a plan that will help you take yourself to the next step in at least one of those skills. What's that one key thing that would just make you fantastic at what you do?

So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport

https://www.calnewport.com/books/so-good/

Dan Pink on Self-Determination Theory

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_the_puzzle_of_motivation/reading-list