Comments on: What If My Dream Major Turns Into a Nightmare? http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/ Decoding Patterns of Success Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: all the voices of the mountains | - that calms the darkness before first light - http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-25935 all the voices of the mountains | - that calms the darkness before first light - Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:11:08 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-25935 [...] because looking at my grades alone I have no reason at all to be making this choice. But reading this was a wonderful reaffirmation that this is the choice which I am making entirely out of my own [...]

[...] because looking at my grades alone I have no reason at all to be making this choice. But reading this was a wonderful reaffirmation that this is the choice which I am making entirely out of my own [...]

]]> By: Project #3: Starting a business for the money and the “Competition Strategy” http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-24429 Project #3: Starting a business for the money and the “Competition Strategy” Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:40:51 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-24429 [...] follow Cal Newport’s Study Hacks and his recommended course of action would be innovating within my current field. However, there is a problem with that [...]

[...] follow Cal Newport’s Study Hacks and his recommended course of action would be innovating within my current field. However, there is a problem with that [...]

]]> By: Life: Applied. « Life's a Game http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-21632 Life: Applied. « Life's a Game Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:14:12 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-21632 [...] I don’t think it’s worth worrying about. Just as there’s no right major, only the right motivations for choosing it (i.e., it’s interesting to me, right now), there’s probably no single [...]

[...] I don’t think it’s worth worrying
about. Just as there’s no right major, only the right
motivations for choosing it (i.e., it’s interesting to
me, right now), there’s probably no single [...]

]]> By: Kerry NZ http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-20189 Kerry NZ Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:22:07 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-20189 So did he finish? So did he finish?

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]]> By: Study Hacks » Blog Archive » The Roberts Method: A Professor’s Advice for Falling in Love With Your Major http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-18625 Study Hacks » Blog Archive » The Roberts Method: A Professor’s Advice for Falling in Love With Your Major Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:42:48 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-18625 [...] multiple times, in a fruitless search for the perfect fit. (As longtime Study Hacks readers know, I don’t believe in the existence of a “right major,” which dooms any such quest to failure.) Others grind through the difficult courses that populate [...]

[...] multiple times, in a fruitless search for the perfect fit. (As longtime Study Hacks readers know, I don’t believe in the existence of a “right major,” which dooms any such quest to failure.) Others grind through the difficult courses that populate [...]

]]> By: Study Hacks » Blog Archive » On the Value of Hard Focus http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-9085 Study Hacks » Blog Archive » On the Value of Hard Focus Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:51:28 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-9085 [...] Our student from above, probably lacks hard focus muscles. She has no training in keeping her concentration locked even after resistance builds. And because of this, she’s collapsing well short of the finish line in the mental marathons she needs to run as an upper-level student. [...]

[...] Our student from above, probably lacks hard focus muscles. She has no training in keeping her concentration locked even after resistance builds. And because of this, she’s collapsing well short of the finish line in the mental marathons she needs to run as an upper-level student. [...]

]]> By: Daisy http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-8897 Daisy Tue, 26 May 2009 04:04:28 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-8897 I really needed to read this now. I've been starting to panic because my final year is coming and the required courseload (meaning I can't deviate from it or lessen it) is monstrous. the end is near, I guess... :) I really needed to read this now.

I’ve been starting to panic because my final year is coming and the required courseload (meaning I can’t deviate from it or lessen it) is monstrous.

the end is near, I guess… :)

]]> By: Alvin http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-8682 Alvin Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:37:08 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-8682 Tyler, what about learning phrases or sentences instead? Have you read either antimoon.com or http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/? Tyler, what about learning phrases or sentences instead? Have you read either antimoon.com or http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?

]]> By: jamin http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-8673 jamin Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:12:39 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/04/22/what-if-my-dream-major-turns-into-a-nightmare/#comment-8673 "There is no right major for you. There are only right motivations." “There is no right major for you. There are only right motivations.”

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