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Radical Personal Finance

Why “Follow Your Passion” is the Wrong Career Advice (calling in sick today on RPF) RPF0028

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Finance, Retirement, Insurance, Business, Money, Education, Self-improvement, Financial, Independence, Growth, Advice, Investing, Family, Personal, Radical, Christian, Faith

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hey friends, I’m still not able to speak well enough to record a normal show but I wanted to make sure you have something thought-provoking to listen to. The thought-provoking audio for today is from Cal Newport‘s speech at The World Domination Summit. I hope to be back with you loud and strong on Monday! […]

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0:00.0

Hey friends good morning. This is Joshua Sheets and this is episode 28 of the

0:05.8

Radical Personal Finance Podcast for today Friday July 25 2014. I'm calling

0:11.7

in sick again on the show this morning.

0:14.0

As you can tell probably from the sound of my voice,

0:16.4

I'm not quite really able to speak,

0:18.0

who could barely get out a whisper this morning.

0:20.1

So, but I didn't want to leave you without something thought-provoking for your Friday to take you into the weekend.

0:25.5

So what I've chosen to do is today I'm going to play you audio from a speech by Cal Newport.

0:31.1

And this audio that I've chosen, I found chosen founded on YouTube you can see the

0:34.7

link in the show notes and this audio that I've chosen is from a speech that

0:39.9

Cal delivered at the World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon.

0:43.5

The World Domination Summit is a project by Chris Gillibow, and he brings together a bunch of

0:49.1

interesting people for a weekend and they talk about how to change the world. That's the best summary that I can

0:54.7

give it. Now I have never had the opportunity to go in the past. I would like to go in the future

0:58.9

so I'm hoping it just finished up. It was actually just a week or two ago, the the 2014 version but I'm hoping that in the future

1:05.3

that I am able to go maybe next year maybe next year will be the the magic year because

1:10.4

it just seems like what an awesome gathering of people that Chris has put together.

1:14.9

I would encourage you to check out, if you haven't read a name of Chris is writing, you can write it,

1:18.6

you can find it at Chris Gillibou.com, CHRIS G- l e b a u k i k k killabo dot com and he's written a book

1:29.8

called a hundred dollar startup which is a very useful book if for someone who's interested in

1:33.8

starting a business but put off by having the money to be able to do so. But this

1:39.1

speech by Cal is basically why follow your passion is the wrong career advice and

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