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The goal of this chapter is to understand your current situation, understand where you want to be, and construct a plan to make your way to the desired destination.
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Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (Little, Brown and Company, 2008).
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Cal Newport, So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love (Grand Central Publishing, 2012).
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Alex Banayan, The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World’s Most Successful People Launched Their Careers (Random House, 2018).
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Robert Greene, Mastery (Viking, 2012).
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This quote appears in many different forms. This particular version is frequently attributed to Bill Gates in the afterword of the 1996 edition of The Road Ahead.
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Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People (Simon and Schuster, 1937).
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Yale confirmed in 2017 that no such study exists according to their knowledge. Source: https://ask.library.yale.edu/faq/175224
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Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives, revised edition (HJ Kramer, 2006).
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Nagy, Z. (2019). Discover Your Individual Goals. In: Soft Skills to Advance Your Developer Career. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5092-1_3
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