It's Wiser to Handcraft One Masterwork Than Release 1000 Mediocrities #leadership #business

6 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube leadership/business talk (by Clegg) arguing that mastery comes from specialization: do a few things dazzlingly well rather than many mediocre ones. The speaker cites Confucius ('person who chases two rabbits catches neither') and emphasizes the wisdom, bravery, and discipline to say no to opportunities that distract from primary commitments.

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Confucius said, person who chases two rabbits catches neither. What a lot of people do and one of the reasons they don't get traction around their ethical ambitions is they try to do too many things so they end up achieving mediocrity at many. You want to be a specialist. One of the elements of mastery is specialization. You do just a few things dazzlingly well, and you have the wisdom, the bravery and the discipline to say no to every activity that the world is trying to sell to you.