It's about combining your main skills with some additional complimentary skills that can help to amplify your main one. The good point is these skills (main and complimentary) don’t need to be in perfect or excellent state. A good or just above average is enough as sometimes, a good main skill plus some good complimentary skills can create a unique excellent one.

And it also doesn’t need a long time to learn some complimentary skill to be decent of it, as on contrary, based on diminishing return, it will took longer for you to get better once you already good in something.

No, it doesn’t mean that you need to become a generalist. A generalist may know a lot of stuffs, spreading to all direction. But Talent Stacking is knowing some stuffs that going to same direction, amplifying your main skills.

Pick complimentary skills that can impact other skills positively. A sample in video explaining that how a soccer player that has a routine practice and also develop complimentary skills in stamina, speed, teamplay and power; which also effect his performance in basket ball, outperform those who only practice basketball without additional practice.

It’s advised to learn skills that can effect in large, for example persuasive communication, time management, other language, writing, marketing, understanding psychology, business, etc.

Another one complimentary skill that important is understanding business. It can improve your life, from an employee, to become a business owner, a freelancer or investor. As by understanding business, indirectly you will learn accounting, leverage, sourcing, money management, risk management, etc.

These skills can impact many areas in your life; and whatever your main skill is, these complimentary skills will help to amplify it.

Another benefit of having Talent Stack is we will be more ready in facing changes. As we know, the world around us is constantly changing. And if we only stick to one main skill, this may risk us in facing change, where our skill become obsolete. But with Talent Stacking, we can easily adapt to the change and re-create our uniqueness by adding more complimentary skills that relevant with current changes.