#2044 - Q&A: “Help! The topic I chose is no longer relevant”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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What if you set out to become an expert in a topic—and all of a sudden, or perhaps over time—that topic becomes less and less relevant? That’s what our listener is facing in today’s episode.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
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Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | Here is an interesting challenge. |
| 0:10.4 | Interesting challenge today from one of our listeners. |
| 0:12.7 | What if you set out to become an expert in a topic? |
| 0:15.1 | You know, a lot of featured case studies, a lot of people that we talked about here on |
| 0:18.8 | the show that have ended up making a lot of money, being really successful, maybe even |
| 0:22.6 | creating a transition from a day job to working on their thing full time. |
| 0:26.0 | A lot of them have pursued this model of becoming an authority in a topic, you know, sharing |
| 0:31.8 | content, eventually building out some products or services. |
| 0:34.8 | So it's a well-tested proven model. |
| 0:37.7 | But what happens? |
| 0:38.7 | Here's the problem. |
| 0:39.7 | What happens if all of a sudden, or perhaps over time, I guess it could be either way, |
| 0:43.9 | whatever it is, at some point, the topic becomes less and less relevant, maybe less popular |
| 0:48.9 | or less pertinent. |
| 0:50.1 | You know, I'm always encouraging our listeners to specialize. |
| 0:53.3 | This is really important. |
| 0:54.8 | You know, don't be a generalist. |
| 0:55.8 | You're going to be much more successful if you choose a specialty or a niche or a niche, |
| 1:00.4 | as they say. |
| 1:01.4 | But I suppose there are situations in which choosing the wrong specialization can be dangerous, |
| 1:07.4 | at least in terms of your economic stability. |
| 1:09.9 | So our listener in this interesting challenge is finding themselves in that situation. |
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