I do not like Cal Newport.

Or rather, I don’t like his ideology.  I agree with him, on some level.  People who work hard at one specific skill will ultimately be better and have a better job than those that don’t work hard but are really passionate about it.  Better job tends to equal happiness (ie: a writer who is writing about something they truly care about on a large scale will be happier than a writer who is writing page 13 one paragraph articles for an unpopular newspaper.
However, there are many things that contribute to people losing passion for their work.  And it is rarely just ‘Oh I have to actually do this’.
For example: women are typically discriminated against in the workplace.  A woman doing incredibly hard work for a newspaper may not be seen as on the same level as a male co-worker, even if that co-worker is not working as hard as she is.
Another example is, one that was mentioned in my tutorial, capitalism.  If someone wants to make jewelry, they may work incredibly hard at this.  They may make the most beautiful jewelry ever created.  However, the stress of capitalism, of supply and demand, may be too much for them.  If they are having to work from 5am to 3am, and never make enough money to pay for supplies and food and rent, it is only natural that they will be unhappy.  It’s not their passion that is hurting them, but their society.

Cal does not take this into consideration.  Rather he ignores the variable of society, and his studies are therefor incredibly skewed.  There are some variables that are excusable to ignore but the entire world is not one of them.

I understand that his work has merit, and this advice is very useful for people who may not have found a passion as of yet, but for me, a Scorpio moon, this advice was kind of ridiculous.  Follow your passion kids, and be the best you can be.  You don’t have to choose.