You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.
I believe we're all endowed with a very small set of narrow skills that make us unique. You've got to find what that is. Most often what you truly understand makes you unique is something that you're also going to build passion around.
No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
Some of the things I've done are really special.
Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.
I've always found diversity more interesting than specialisation. I like mixing it up across years, within days, within weeks - that's what stimulates me, gives me energy.
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
There has to be something in every role that interests you.
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