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Comment by baxtr | Hacker News Reader

Oh man. Thanks for sharing. This text could be coming from me. I also struggle with myself for not having a clear focus. I am interested in a wide range of topics.

I also wanna start my company. But I wonder: Will I ever stick? Will I have the grit and the passion to pursue one topic for the next 5-7 years. What's your thinking on this?

Btw, they call us "multipotentialites"...

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Charlie Munger (of Berkshire Hathaway fame) says that the best investors are multi-disciplinary, because everything in life is interrelated. I tend to agree with him. It goes beyond investing.

This talks about Munger’s concept of multi-disciplines and using lutiple “models” in life. https://25iq.com/2015/08/22/a-dozen-things-ive-learned-from-...

> Will I have the grit and the passion to pursue one topic for the next 5-7 years.

I will say, I was able to get my company off the ground and white labeled it for a much larger company. I ended up hating the product in the end, 10 years later - because I was sole founder and every single thing I had to do myself.

I think you will be able to stick with it ( especially when there is no other choice ! ) , but you might end up hating it.

I think this is not uncommon. I mentioned in another reply, that I'm "good at" what I do but I don't like doing it anymore. Saying I hate it is a bit too strong, but some days it can feel like that.

I've had those thoughts in the past. I would do a trial run of something with much less importance t o prove to myself that I could commit to something for a long-ish time. For example, one time I used the Borderlands 3 story line as a benchmark. If I could sit through that entire story line (something I hadn't done with any game in many many years), then I would have some modicum of confidence that I could stick to something more important.

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