Welcome to Lessons episodes of Success Story, part of the HubSpot Podcast Network.

These Lessons Episodes will be shorter conversations with past guests,

valued members of the Success Story community, and myself. They'll be focused on teaching you

actionable insightful takeaways that you can use to upscale your personal and

professional life. The big idea today is why you need to be a specialist and

before you come after me because I know I just did a video a couple weeks ago on

why you have to diversify and be a polymath.

Hear me out.

I did this topic because candidly, our world is fascinated by cross-disciplinary

innovation.

I quite literally just did a video on this,

and the reason why I'm doing a video on specialization

because we need to help people understand where they need to be chronologically in their life.

Why do you need to be a specialist first before being a T-shaped

anything, a polymath, whatever it is you want to call it?

And it's easy to fall into the habits of being a cross disciplinary individual because you're

combining different fields and different perspectives and I've written about this several times.

It's another word for this combinatorial thinking, right?

But today, we're going to do a slightly different spin on it.

I'm going to tell you why you would benefit from nishing down

and specializing at least for a period of time in your career or in your business and then you go wide after and I have no doubt that you're all asking like why does anybody actually There is a time and place for everything. History actually tells us a different story.

So many of the most successful people and businesses started with a deep focus in one area.

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