Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy To Achieve Career Success
Many of us believe in this false notion that you have to master a skill to achieve career success. Here are many lessons we can learn from people who are masters at one particular skill, but most of the time, we don’t WANT to apply the advice-most of us WANT to.
A More Realistic Approach To Career Success
If you want to be successful according to Bob Dylan’s definition of success, you need two things: a stable career and enough income.
- You don’t need to be the best in the world to achieve this level of career success. All you need is a valuable skillset.
What Skills Will Make Me More Valuable?
Productivity
- Writing
- Psychology
- Persuasion
- Personal Finance
- The more skills you have, and the more value you can create, the more rewards you will receive
- You can’t go wrong by developing these skills
Build Your Skill Stack
Talent stacking
- You’re better off being good at two complementary skills than one
- For example, you have poor drawing skills, reasonable web design skills, average marketing skills, solid productivity skills, and good but not great writing skills, but when you stack these skills on top of each other and start blogging, it proves to be a success
Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds Of Success
You have more chances of career success if you have more skills.
- If you’re a one-trick pony, your opportunities are limited. If you have multiple skills, you’re simply more valuable.