The Cure

I totally found myself while reading “Mastery” by George Leonard, and not in a good way.

Leonard describes three paths that most people attempt to avoid the only true path to mastery. This only true path is lengthy, arduous, and has no instant gratification, which is probably why many of us try to circumvent it. Leonard has even named these paths, and you can guess the traits of each one from the titles alone: The Dabbler, The Obsessive, and The Hacker.

I am a Dabbler. If you’d read my very first blog post, you might have already deduced this fact based on the impressively long (insert sarcasm here) list of job titles I’ve held over the last 30 years. The Dabbler fits me to a T.

While studying our material this week, I do believe that I came across the remedy for my disorder! Wences Cesares eluded to it in his video (from a cruise ship, no less!) about entrepreneurship. I'm calling it serial entrepreneurial monogamy. I need to be continuously engaged in one, and only one, business venture, and I need to do it long enough to do it well.

Not to brag or anything, but I did come to that on my own about the same time that I returned to school. I have finally nailed myself down to something, and my partner is awesome. I know that the rewards will come, eventually. No more dabbling for me. I am ALL IN!