Nicolas Cole argues that prioritization is a trainable skill most people never develop. The core challenge: accepting that focusing on one goal means sacrificing others. Cole says you must rewire your brain to stay comfortable with the atrophy of neglected areas while maintaining clarity on what actually matters.
If there is a meta skill that is the hardest thing for people to improve, it is the fact that we all wish that we could have 10 different priorities, and it doesn't work that way. The moment you prioritize one thing, it costs you something else. So you have to be okay with that. And it's worth internalizing, this is a skill. It is a skill to retrain your brain to go, I can really only pursue one thing at a time. It is a skill to remember that when you prioritize one thing, it will cost you other things. And it is a skill to be able to maintain a clear head and make good decisions when you're noticing that other things are atrophying and you go, that's okay because this is the priority and I'm okay with the trade-offs of this being the priority.
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