Abu Lahya argues that mastery requires total commitment to one pursuit, not juggling many. He claims he knows no one who fully dedicated themselves to a skill and failed to reach the top. Spreading yourself across football, basketball, padel, and business means you'll be mediocre at all of them.
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How do you acquire that ability to be skilled at everything? You can't be skilled at everything. I'll be the best at everything if I try. Like, I'm not gonna be the best at football, basketball, padel, and business at the same time. Like, I'll focus on one thing, the thing that matters. But I know for a fact if I tried, I'd be the best at the thing I tried. And the actual truth of the matter is, is that anybody you actually put their full effort, sacrifice, and everything into something would be the best at anything they tried as well. I know a lot of people. I don't know a single person who dedicated all the efforts into doing something and being the best at it and are not the best at it. I don't know a single guy who's fully focused who's not That's the way he does. There's never a guy, he spends 8 hours a day playing padel and he's trash. Like, you never hear that.