Hey, this week's Good Life Project Rift is called In Defense of Mastery.

So there's been a lot of talk over the last couple of years really that I've heard.

It started a lot in the blogosphere I heard all over social media.

I heard a lot in the world of entrepreneurship, especially sort of micrometer, so-called

entrepreneurs, especially in the space of people who can see themselves creative, pros,

and artists.

And it's all about having the freedom to put together a basket of interests, to pursue

a wide variety of things simultaneously, and to figure out how to do them in a way and

on a level that really allows us to potentially mold together a decent living out of all

these different things simultaneously.

So the freedom to pursue multiple interests is, and this is sort of one of the arguments

that I've really heard put forth strongly, is in the end, it's the ultimate quest.

Deep knowledge and total devotion to the pursuit of mastery in a single field has even been

to a certain extent demonized.

And sort of the pursuit of being the generalist as, that's the future, has been something

that I keep hearing more and more and more.

And I wonder if that's true, and I wonder even if it's true for some, if that should

really be the general proclamation for all.

You know, here's where I raise my hand and say, mm, I may have even talked about pursuing

multiple things at once in the past, but increasingly I wonder if part of what's going on here

is that people, and let me even refer to that, that I have not been willing to endure

the intense work.

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