What Kind of Specific Knowledge

🧶 Tags:: #literature_Notes
🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2024-09-21 - 00:02

When I talk about specific knowledge, I mean figure out what you were doing as a kid or teenager almost effortlessly.

Something you didn’t even consider a skill, but people around you noticed. Your mother or your best friend growing up would know.

Examples of what your specific knowledge could be:

• Sales skills
• Musical talents, with the ability to pick up any instrument An obsessive personality: you dive into things and remember them quickly
• Love for science fiction: you were into reading sci-fi, which means you absorb a lot of knowledge very quickly
• Playing a lot of games, you understand game theory pretty well
• Gossiping, digging into your friend network. That might make you into a very interesting journalist.

The specific knowledge is sort of this weird combination of unique traits from your DNA, your unique upbringing, and your response to it. It’s almost baked into your personality and your identity. Then you can hone it.