Nicolas Cole argues that building skills expands your options, but you can't master multiple things at once. The myth that you can do everything simultaneously distracts from the deep work required to excel at one thing.
I continue to learn the lesson that as you acquire more skills, you can do anything you want. The more skilled that you get, the more you can do anything. If I wanted to be a full-blown YouTuber tomorrow, I could do that. Now, I don't have all the skills today to be very good at it, but there's no reason why I couldn't start doing that. You can do anything. The asterisk being barring limitations within biology. The challenge is that you cannot do everything at once. And the more time I spend building things, the more that I realize how incredibly difficult it is to do one thing really well, even just one thing, let alone 2 or 3 or 5 or 10. It has taken me a very long time and a lot of reflection to realize that the faulty belief of thinking I need to do lots of different things or I can do lots of different things at the same time, I always looked at that as so hopeful, so optimistic. Oh, why would I sell my "Sure, of course I can do everything." But really buried underneath that is the fact that you're often trying to distract yourself from what needs to be done to do one thing really, really well.
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