Why Multi-Passionate people need to approach mastery differently

I find that going wide and learning the best lessons from the people who have dedicated their entire lives to a certain pursuit gets you really, really close to mastery.

we can explore and exploit in parallel: become a jack of all trades, and a master of one. Or we can do it serially: lots of successful careers look like an initial period of exploration, followed by going deep on one thing for several years, then an exploration phase in an adjacent field, and so on. There is still a trade-off between these states,

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