Deadly Misconceptions

Hi, guys!

Have you ever found a bunch of hot girls in your high school making your ears burnt red by exaggeratedly praising their perfect-ten-guy who can do anything beyond human level? (Wow! That might be the longest sentence I've ever made.) Well, if you have faced such circumstance and feel powerless and desperately envy, I have a good news for you. Think about this:

As those 'perfect guys' grow up, they will inevitably come to a point where they have to choose one of their talents to be worked on and let the others 'disappear with the ashes'. In this condition, it will be very hard for them because they have to make the might-be-toughest decision in their life. A wrong decision will mess up their whole life. Different story happens to a computer maniac who 'doesn't have any other talent'.

Another example. I suppose all of you know who Cristiano Ronaldo is. I believe what first pop out in your mind is a figure of sturdy yet agile man who is unfairly born with the invincible talent in football. But how many of you know that he had released a single? Even though he is not as good as Josh Groban, at least, he is technically better than the currently most popular pop star who notably has the most followers on Twitter.

What does it mean? As they get mature, girls, or more generally society, don't respect you for being multitalent. Although it may happens in some cases, the most successful people in this world are known for being extremely excellent in one field. The field that they do love the most.

Let me give you another argument. In the Scarcity Law of Economics, it is roughly told that, there are only limited amount of energy, time, and other sources for human in order to achieve their unlimited number of goals. In other words, you can't achieve all you want. If you want to get something more, you have to get other things less.

Let me give you a more intellegently-arranged yet simple example. Let say there are men named Bill and Steve who both excell in fixing bike and computer. For simplicity, let say Bill can fix a bike in 10 minutes and a computer in 20 minutes. On the other hand, Steve can fix a bike in 20 minutes and a computer in 10 minutes. One day, I ask them to fix 6 bikes in an hour. Let's take a look at 2 different cases.

1. The first one is, let Bill and Steve work for 40 minutes of fixing bikes and 20 minutes of fixing computers. In the end, they'd have fixed 6 bikes and 3 computers.

2. The second one is, let Bill and Steve devote their 60 minutes for fixing bikes and computers      respectively. In the end, they'd have fixed 6 bikes and 6 computers. As you my see, this case is better. Meaning, specialization makes us more productive.

Implicitly, if you want to be an employer, your boss won't recruit you because of your multitalents. It's because he sees that you are excellent in one thing. Well, even though life is not that simple, at least, the aforementioned analogy can help you to get the sense of benefit in specialization.

So, don't be afraid from now on! Use your limited time and energy wisely. Listen to your heart, choose that one thing and do it! Don't you ever try to do something in order to please someone. Life is too short for that! Do because you care! But it doesn't mean that school is bad just because you are often forced to get good grades in the subject you don't like just in order to allow you to study more about the subject you like in the next level. Consider schooling as a way to train you to be able to take responsibility in the future because sometimes you have to do things that you hate. Don't worry about girls! There will be lots of them waiting for you if you do it right. Believe!

Thank you for accidentally reading this article by the way.

Andrew Best