I just hyperfocus on whatever interests me most until I peak (either because I'm world class or I've hit my personal ceiling) and then I relax for a while, until something else takes my fancy.
It's how I learned to cook and bake, read and speak German, sew medieval costumes by hand, square-foot gardening, sw quality assurance, use Bitcoin, and now design Nostr clients and comprehend the protocol.
It's why I bought Bitcoin at the peak and then hodled until the next peak, even though everyone around me told me to sell.
I'm not selling it.
I understand why I'm not selling it.
I put in the effort.
I ate, slept, and breathed Bitcoin for about 3 months.
I'm not fucking selling.
And Nostr is going to eat the Internet.
Stop telling me to touch grass. You touch it.
Makes sense when you put is that way. This is how I also do it. Always chased what interested my in the moment. Most obsessions last 6-12 months except for nostr, startups and financial instruments.
Maybe we don't need to focus on a niche for >10 years. Maybe mastery is the wrong goal. I guess learning a wide variety of skills makes a unique character and an adapted person compared to a master of one.
Everything transfers.
I crammed rhetoric for 2 months, in preparation for teaching a homeschool coop class, and then I got a job working in a marketing department years later and eventually took to holding sw training seminars and now it turns out that it's useful for memeing and shitposting. 😁
People can sense brilliance because it's the result of a brain or body being rapidly reengineered to complete a task at high efficiency.
You don't learn to run a good marathon by going jogging on Fridays. You grind down that trail until you become one with it and fly.
