The world rewards scarcity.

The first rule of business is that the less scarce something is, the less valuable it becomes. Without scarcity, there’s no market price.

So what are you actually doing when you emphasize that you’re just like everyone else? You’re reducing your own scarcity.

To become scarce within the same span of time—only then will the commercial world reward you with money when you grow up. Rather than constantly encountering problems and thinking you need to spend extra time learning something new. That’s costly; we call that “studying.” True opportunity-taking means leveraging what you already know at no extra cost.