Specialize in Specific Things

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🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2024-09-18 - 20:32

Specific knowledge is knowledge you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else and replace you. Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.

Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others. When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools. Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.

Specific Knowledge, Accountability, and Leverage is All You Need