Summary Of The Worst Generation By Cal Newport

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This article was written by Cal Newport and published in the Harvard Business Review. The Generation Y is getting in the job market, nevertheless many people say it is not going well. The New York Post said that the Generation Y are “The Worst Generation”, besides others called it pampered and high maintenance. Newport claim that the generation is not selfish; is that they have been misinformed. When the phrase, “follow your passion”, became famous, the Generation Y lifted. The author found out that the people who love what they do for living became little by little passionate, when they became very good at it. Newport also declares that becoming very good at something can take too much time and can be very hard. Individuals from Generation

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