Shede: Two Sides of the Same Coin

When you try to do too many things at once, you end up doing none of them well. The root cause is that every single task inevitably consumes your energy, and your energy is limited.

Any achievement you make will consume your time. No one can be good at everything.

What do you have? What do you want? What are you willing to give up? You can’t have it all—if you demand everything, you’ll end up with nothing.

There’s a logical trap here. Many people can’t distinguish between necessary conditions and sufficient conditions.

Saying “If you don’t give up both A’s, you can’t get S” doesn’t mean “If you give up both A’s, you will definitely get S.” Got it? That’s a necessary but not sufficient condition.

Because to achieve S, apart from making sacrifices and focusing your energy, there’s also the factor of your innate talent. To achieve S, besides giving things up and concentrating your efforts, your natural aptitude also plays a role.

Someone with top-tier talent can break through the hardest parts of a field directly. Someone with second-rate talent has to rely on leveraging external forces instead.