Chase the Edges
Its frustrating when people recommend this book to me.
I’ve read it, I’ll read it again some time, it’s a great book— but that’s not the point.
When this book is recommended, it’s in reference to whoever the “recommendee” is — doing too much.
It’s a subtle jab.
A roundabout way of saying “focus on ONE thing”
Yep. I hear you. I get it. But there’s a whole life to be lived before you can achieve that focus.
You have to figure out a lot of stuff before then.
And to be honest, I don’t think the experimentation and iteration should ever stop.
INFACT, I think you should chase all the shiny objects you find… BECAUSE— the acquisition of all those skills along the way is priceless.
They will make you GREAT. And overtime, you will eventually hone in and focus. It will just happen by default.
What you need to do right now, is “chase the edges”.
I had this exact conversation with @AustinLinney just the other day. And these are his exact words explaining this principle👇
“what I call this and what you’re doing is called chasing the edges.
and what you’re doing is you’re seeing what you’re capable of.
With people like you, only when you reach your capacity will you say no—it’s like a default mechanism within your brain because you want to do everything.
so until we change everything and find out what we’re really capable of—we can’t actually say no.
see the problem in society is that they want us to say no before we’ve reached our capacity…and it’s unacceptable. you can’t.
so what you do is you found your capacity today. but you’ll have a different capacity a week from now, a month from now.
so one of the things that people don’t talk about is all you’re too busy, you’re too this, you’re too that…
I know but I’m trying to find the edge of what I’m capable of doing—
and when you do that you unlock different versions of yourself you didn’t know that allow you to say no to certain things because the 10x stuff rises to the top.”
