When you’re learning something, you can either go deep and master a narrow topic, or go wide and learn the basics of a range of subtopics falling under a broad topic.
A third option is to stay somewhere in the middle. It’s safer in the middle, but you won’t learn the range of possibilities, and you won’t completely master any one topic.
Deep is where the gold is.
But it’s probably better to go wide when you are young, so you can see what’s out there.
Once you find a good spot where you enjoy the topic and can see yourself devoting most of your effort, dig down deep.
As I get older, I’m starting to go deeper. I’m reading fewer books, but going deeper into each book and topic.
Spend your youth looking for the best place to dig, then devote the rest of your life to digging as deep as possible.
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