Status: child
Pareto’s Principal applied to circles of competence.
You can likely learn the 20% most important information of a skill quickly. However it’s understanding and having a full level of understanding. Being a “lifer” in that field to know have the 80% extra information which will give you very powerful judgement. (Think sales)
Yet when learning skills, one will certainly have a 1 or 2 that they will become an absolute expert in. They will then have quite a few more that they can quickly learn basics and above average function of the skill. For me sales is an important skill. The door to door direct sales is likely one of the 20% understanding skills for me though. I could make general judgements and understand enough to see what’s good and what isn’t good, I have enough generalization to delegate the sales because it’s not something I personally enjoy.
If you’re going to be a generalist, use this to your advantage and learn to the point of “Good enough”