So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

Chapter 5: The Power of Career
Capital
1.
“Ira Glass on Storytelling, part
3 and 4,” YouTube video, 5:20,
video courtesy of Current TV,
uploaded by “PRI” on August
18, 2009,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?

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v=BI23U7U2aUY
.
2.
Kelly Slater, “Al Merrick Talks
Sleds,” Channel Island
Surfboards (blog), January 6,
2011,
http://cisurfboards.com/blog/2011/al-
merrick-talks-sleds/
.
3.
Emily Bazelon, “The Self-
Employed Depression,” 
New
York Times Magazine
, June 7,
2009, page MM38, available
online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/magazine/07unemployed-
t.html
.
4.
Pamela Slim, 
Escape from
Cubicle Nation: From

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Corporate Prisoner to
Thriving Entrepreneur
(New
York: Portfolio Hardcover,
2009).
5.
Pamela Slim, “Rebuild Your
Backbone. Because you are
good enough, smart enough,
and doggonit, people like you,”
Escape From Cubicle Nation
(author’s website),
http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/rebuild-
your-backbone-because-you-
are-good-enough-smart-
enough-and-doggonit-people-
like-you/
.
6.
Stephen Regenold, “A Retreat

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Groomed to Sate a Need to
Ski,” 
New York Times
, June 5,
2009, C34, available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/greathomesanddestinations/05Away.html
7.
For more details on the
dangers of this particular trap,
see Robert I. Sutton, 
The No
Asshole Rule: Building a
Civilized Workplace and
Surviving One That Isn’t
(New
York: Warner Business Books,
2007).