Nicolas Cole says once you're competent at something, spend 10-20% of your time experimenting with new skills to stay adaptable. But most people already sabotage themselves by chasing five goals at once, which defeats the purpose.
As you build competence in an area and your life is reasonably taken care of, I think that there's a lot of merit to blocking off 10 or 20% of your time to try new things, because the world is always changing and you kind of always want to be like, "All right, I'm nimble no matter what happens. Like, I've always kind of got this new skill being built over here." The problem and why I don't say that very often is because most people already have a problem called "I'm trying to chase 5 things at once."
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