Dharmesh Shah explains the "trillion-dollar Venn diagram": combining rare skills creates outsized value. The fewer people who have both copywriting and crypto expertise, for example, the more valuable that intersection becomes. Pick skills that are rare and reinforce what you already do well.
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This is what I call it, the trillion-dollar Venn diagram of success. Draw a circle with one of your skills. Let's say we put copywriting, and so that's the circle. It's like, okay, X number of people. Let's say we draw another circle, we'll call it crypto, and that's a group of people. If you intersect those 2 circles and turn into a Venn diagram, the number of people that know copywriting really well and also know crypto really well is 100 times smaller than either of those circles combined. And if you can convert that into some kind of monetizable business thing or whatever, that's when magic Sort of happens. How much value will that intersection create is 2 things: how rare is that intersection, whether it's 2 circles or 3 circles or whatever, and then the other one is how much does it reinforce the other skills that you already have. So for instance, I'm a software developer. If I combine that with I'm gonna go off and become an Olympic-level swimmer, the intersection of that is so unrelated, but, uh, software development is applicable to lots of— if I was gonna be an academic researcher, if I was gonna go into music, there's a lot more overlap. They reinforce each other. So my Advice here was, as you're picking skills to acquire, acquire skills that are both rare but also reinforce things that you're already exceptional at.
