Specific Knowledge

It is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity on multiple skillsets.

• It’s hard to become the top 1% in any field, but it’s a lot easier to combine/stack two (or more) skills where you’re in the top 25% of each.
• Diminishing returns suggest that you don’t need to excel in every foundational skill; you just need to reach a sufficient level of competence in each one.

It should feel like play to you, but work for others.

• There is an enormous difference between working hard on something that is a grind and working hard on something that comes easily to you. Exceptional results almost exclusively happen when you work hard on an area where you have some natural aptitude. Play to your strengths.

It can be taught (hence, ≠ Unique Knowledge), but only through apprenticeship (e.g., on-the-job training), not in schools.

It is something society cannot yet easily train other people to do (hard to replicate).

Find your “unfair advantages”: 清楚知道自己的強項與天賦 ¹，把興趣變成自己的優勢

See Also

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