Nicolas Cole argues beginners should commit to one thing instead of juggling many projects. Mastery requires the 10,000 hours of practice, and focusing on a single pursuit reveals how deep it actually goes and keeps you humble about how much you still don't know.
This is like one of those things that it is so hard to wrap your head around as a beginner, because as a beginner you think, I could solve this problem and I could solve this problem and I could help this person and I could do this thing over here. And the lesson that you haven't learned yet is when you commit to just one thing, the more that you do that one thing, the more that you realize, A, how much deeper that rabbit hole goes, and B, how hilarious it is that you ever thought you could do more than just that one thing. You're humbled by it. I wake up humbled every single day because I'm like, what were you thinking 10 years ago? You really thought you were going to build like 10 different businesses helping 10 different people all at once? 10,000 hours. I still feel like I've barely scratched the surface on one.
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