Only twenty four hours
“Organise your professional life rigorously around your circle of competence. This radical focus will bear more than monetary fruits…
Over the course of your life you will modify your circle of competence. You may even add extra areas of interest…creating a deep knowledge base by reading text books and completing online courses, reading long articles and talking to people in the know…These days, with very few exceptions – you’ll only find professional success in a niche. The greater your knowledge and the greater your ability within that niche, the greater your success…
With a sharply defined circle of competence, it will be easy to decide what information belongs in your brain and what belongs in the rubbish.
Time you spend grazing in fields unrelated to your area of expertise is time you can’t spend systematically tilling the soil of your own circle of competence.
There are only twenty-four hours in a day after all.”
References
Dobelli, R. (2020). Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life. Sceptre, p. 39-42, p. 104.