Are you a jack of all trades or are you the best?

“Put your personality into your work. Unless of course you find yourself immensely boring — in which case, chase the money.” — Joe Duncan

Which would you rather be?

Mediocre at many things or excellent at one thing?

Someone recently asked me this and I was glad to see that we saw eye to eye.

Can you guess my answer to this?

I said after a few moments of thought that I didn’t like the question and didn’t want to answer.

Obviously, that wasn’t well-received at first. “It’s would you rather, you have to choose one.”

I held my ground and said that I don’t want to be excellent at just one thing, I want to be excellent at 5 or 10. I don’t want to be mediocre, God created us for a purpose.

We then moved into talking about what others might desire. Do people really desire to be great at 10 different things? I don’t think that most do.

I think most people aspire to be good enough.

Eventually, that whole conversation transitioned into a cooler vs. closer vs. cleaner conversation too.