Luke Murray argues that focusing on one goal at a time beats spreading yourself thin. He spent 15 years becoming a doctor and 20 years building financial independence, sacrificing dating and hobbies along the way. Now both run on their own, giving him unlimited time for everything he skipped.
Instead of working on everything at once, let yourself focus on something long enough for it to reach escape velocity, which is the minimum velocity an object needs to reach in order to escape the gravitational pull of another celestial object, which is a super fancy physics definition. But let me give you some examples of what that looks like in my life so far. I worked for 15 years to become a doctor and get out of debt, and that I don't have to do anything about anymore, but people automatically assume that I'm smart and I'm good at school and business stuff, or school and career stuff, forever. I don't have to take— keep up anything to maintain that, but it took a lot of energy to reach that escape velocity, almost no energy to maintain it. The second would be my finances. I saved for a whole bunch, I took some risks, and now not only do I I have the money, I also have hired the people to manage it so that I don't have to think about money. Took me 20 years to reach escape velocity, but it takes little to no energy for me to maintain not just financial freedom, but financial clarity about what my status is. And in order to do that, both of those, I didn't, for example, date much or exercise as much. Or go on as many adventures as I could have, or have creative passions or hobbies or interests or outlets, or hang out with my family as much as I could have. However, now I've got all the time in the world to do any of those things if I want to.
