Why follow your passion is bad advice. How the hedgehog concept works for career planning. It's not how good you are but how good you want to be.

1. Nuffield
Department of
Population Health

5. French:
“Timothy has made no effort
whatsoever in this subject.
His classwork
is usually left unfinished and
homework is rarely done.”

6. Follow your
passion for most
people is bad
advice.
(following your
parents’ can be
even worse)

7. I was earning a
£100 a week

8. Is it worth going
to university?

10. How to get
picked?

12. Step #1
Find something
you are
interested in

13. .

14. Find Interesting

16. Step #2
Get good at it
through
deliberate
practice

17. Find Interesting Get Good at it

19. Step #3
Get paid for
doing it

20. Find Interesting Get Good at it
Get paid for
Doing it

23. Circle of
concern

24. Circle of
concern
Circle of
Influence

25. How can you
increase your
circle of
influence?

26. • Know the entry level
qualifications?
• What will make you
stand out?

27. Find somebody
good at what you
want to do and
ask them how
they got so good?

30. What Simon said:
• Enthusiastic
• Pride in work
• Happy to get
hands dirty

32. Pick yourself

33. Find Interesting Get Good at it

41. Most likely what
you start doing you
won’t end up doing
But it’s nice to have
a choice about what
you do