Just so you know, if you live life through daily routines, you’ll only get better at that routine. By that, I mean if you spend your day doing one hour sessions of many different hobbies, then after three years of ten hours of work a day, you’ll have ten skills in which you’ve invested a thousand hours into.
One thousand hours is an intermediate. Five thousand is advanced, and ten thousand hours is a genuine master.
Choose whichever path you want. Either have ten skills in which you’re better than 99% of average people, but worse than all amateurs, OR, have one skill in which you give masters a run of their money in it.
Many people don’t understand how the world changes when you become a master.
A master is the one who writes the rules of the skill. The way he does things is the law, not the other way around.
It’s almost magical, and those who experienced it would understand this; masters acquire magical skills when it comes to what they’re good at.
They try to do a sloppy work of their craft, and others find fascinating, calling it creative.
People would step on shattered glass to have access to a person with such specialized skillset.
Because let’s face it, with AI, having a jack of all trades assistant is something that anyone can have access to without even paying a single dollar.
A specialist, however, is a specimen that AI can’t replicate. Simply because there are only so many masters to go around, and AI can’t replicate their mental models through so little data.
Sure, you’d say that many of the authors of great books are masters, and that’s true, but AI (at least its current form) can’t replicate great works.
When it comes to average works, it can do a great job at that, and even overtake it. Great works are different.
They carry the soul, the dedication, and the continuous personal experience distilled through years of staring at the void and demanding it give something back.
I choose the path of a specialist every time, because right now, a jack of all trades can merely have a middle ground life.
Rec Reading: Mastery by George Leonard
Blurb:
Today I didn’t study much, but because of the circumstances, it wasn’t that bad at all. I hope I can do better as time goes, because frankly, I’m willing to bet my whole being on the current plan. I can only do what I can, and things will roll as they do.
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