Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2015. Keith Your Boy,

famous venture capitalist founder, said this, quote, the key thing to develop over time is what are you going to be incredibly awesome at?

There's a quote I discovered reading a Pat Riley book 20 years ago when he's quoting Jerry Garcia from

the Grateful Dead. He says, you don't want to be the best at what you do. You want to be the only

who does what you do. You want to develop strengths that are unique or world class over time

that become your competitive advantage. And you want to double down on those as much as possible

and find companies and roles that leverage them to your maximum potential close quote.

Once again, Keith Rabeau, who said that. It also reminds me of a quote by Kevin Kelly,

who says, don't be the best, be the only. And it also reminds me of what someone else says. I can't remember

the name about habit stacking, or not necessarily habit stacking, but talent stacking,

is you may not be the best top 1% in any singular thing. But if you are really good at three things, then you might have such

a unique combination that it makes you one of one. And I think that's such a powerful

principle to remember. You might not be the most talented, the smartest, the most athletic,

the greatest in the world at one specific

thing. However, being very good at something, combined with being very good at another thing,

combined with your personality, your experience, your passion, your network, your ability to speak or to write or to code, whatever it may be.

You might have a unique ability or a hobby that might help you in your job.

Your ability to listen might be an X factor in your job.

Your ability to make friends easily. It might be another X factor that might come

difficult to most people in your industry. I remember early in my career when I got into my

initially into sports psychology back in 2009 to 11. I remember one thing that separated me from many of my colleagues early on was my

teaching background. I had to been a high school teacher for five to six years. I know what it was like

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