less is more
i was going to title this entry the myth of diversification but decided to settle for less is more. they’re both connected in my head—trust me.
no one gets ultra rich from diversification. do the research, you’ll see, it’s true. people get really rich from doing one thing well or solving one problem really well then they diversify. the problem with most of us, the rest of us, is that we try to diversify and we keep diversifying before achieving financial freedom. that is a formula for extensive time wasting or to put it quite simply—a formula for failure. not the good kind of failure.
we all have to fail at something, that’s how you get better. that’s not what i’m talking about here; this failure from premature diversification of your time, your energy, your resources, your focus, is a recipe for disaster. and if you don’t do the very very hard thing of narrowing down your focus to one major thing that you want to do and sticking to that thing through really though times (which will show up), then you’ll end up ten, twenty years or decades from now giving other people advice on this same realization if you’re fortunate enough to have that clarity in life at any point.
but why wait. you could just get the point now and stop wasting your time and energy. especially if your goal is to be financially free and like the rest of us you don’t have a trust fund stashed somewhere.
less is more. start now and pick one thing. stick with it for as long as it takes, decades even. yes it will be hard. yes you’ll have your hands full because the more you do the more you’ll have to do with that one thing. yes the law of compounding works hand in hand with divine intelligence and your day will come. yes you’ll have to solve hard problems. yes you’ll have to find a way to survive in the meantime. yes random things happen in the universe and some people have luck or don’t but you’re not them. all you can do is your best to make the odds shift more slighlty towards your favor.
stop thinking you can beat the rat race by doing everything all at once and expecting to outperform those who spend all their time (not literally) doing the one thing you’re competing against them for. you’re not delusional. you’re smart. so act like it.
14th of February 2025—nightime.
