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How It Works
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.
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Is It Means to Become Generalist?
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.
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Which Skills To Pick
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 ...
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Other Benefit
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 t...
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What Is Talent Stacking
The term 'talent stack' was coined by cartoonist Scott Adams – best known as the creator of the Dilbert Cartoon – to describe developing a variety of skills which combine to make someone a sought-after commodity.
Adams describes his own talent stack in the following terms: “I am a famous s...
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Why Business
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, et...
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Common Belief
It's a common belief that to get the most, we must be number 1 or at least become the 1% on top. This is true but becoming top 1% may require a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of competition.
While it might be worth it to fight for, there is another theory that may achieve more than...
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