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The Passion Trap: How the Search for Your Life’s Work is Making Your Working Life Miserable - Cal Newport

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In 1968, Richard Bolles, an Episcopal priest from San Francisco, was in a meeting when someone complained about colleagues “bailing out” of a troubled organization. To remind the group to return to this topic, Bolles jotted a clever phrase on the blackboard:  “What color is your parachute?” The line got a laugh, but as Bolles recalls in a 1999 interview with Fast Company, “I had no idea it would take on all this additional meaning.” Two years later, Bolles lost his job as a priest and was shuffled into an administrative position in the Episcopal Church, advising campus ministers, many of whom were also in danger of losing their jobs. Noticing a lack of good advice on the topic, Bolles self-published a 168-page guide to navigating career changes, which he handed out for free. Looking for a catchy title, he re-purposed his blackboard one-liner. The initial print run was one hundred copies. The premise of Bolles’ guide sounds self-evident to the modern ear: “[figure] out what you like to

The Priest and the Parachute It began with a joke. In 1968, Richard Bolles, an Episcopal priest from San Francisco, was in a meeting when someone complained about colleagues “bailing out” of a troubled organization. To remind the group to return to this topic, Bolles jotted a clever phrase on the blackboard: “What color is your parachute?” The line got a laugh, but as Bolles recalls in a 1999 interview with Fast Company , “I had no idea it would take on all this additional meaning.” Two years later, Bolles lost his job as a priest and was shuffled into an ad

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