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Ep. 19: The Top 5 Reasons to Be a Jack of All Trades

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Generalists Take the Condensed Study, but Not Beyond the Point of Rapidly Diminishing Returns

If you take a surgical approach to applying the 80 20 principle, i would argue not at all. Generalists take the condensed study up to, but not beyond the point of rapidly diminishing returns. And you can be old class, i think, in anything, in six to 12 months,. meaning five % in the top five percent in the general population. If someone wants to get to speaking spanish fluently, or even chinese or japanese, it can be done in eight to 12 weeks.

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