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Growing up as a child, I always knew exactly what I wanted to be. A fireman, a ninja, a biologist, a soccer star, a basketball player, a lawyer, a race car driver, etc. Though I changed my ideas and goals (when I had them) as a child quite often, I was completely focused on what ever it was that I was interested in at that time. When I wanted to become a basketball player, it was all I ever thought about. I played, I read, I watched, and I lived basketball. There was nothing else in my life that seemed to be more important. I was able to become good at many of these things because I would devote all my efforts to just one thing.
As we get older we seem to lose this ability. We try to do so many things that we never really become good at any of them. I believe the same thing can be said for multi-tasking as well. We could all do things a lot better if we focused on them one at a time. In order to do this we all need to figure out what’s really important to us. I find that I have so many interests that I that I am going from one thing to the next while never getting the full enjoyment out of each. Always rushing though one to get to the next. In his book The Dip, Seth Godin talks about how most of the benefits of doing something come from the last 20 percent of the task. And it’s those who really get good at something who reap all the rewards.
After reading this book I realized I had been doing a lot of things, but switching to something else before I really got good. I have decided to devote myself to the things I really want to learn and that I think will be important in my career. I am currently living in in Tokyo, Japan and so my main focus will be Japanese. I currently speak well, but the there is a big difference between speaking well and being able to do business. So Japanese will take presence over all other activities. This will still leave plenty of time to keep studying management and business practices as long as I cut out the things I don’t plan to pursue till the end. So I guess the point of this post is you can try to learn many things, but make sure you put in the time to the things that are really important to you. Because being really good at those things will allow you to reap all the rewards.
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