How to Specialize and Be Excellent

Specializing, finding your nitch and being good at what you do is a hard thing for most people. For others, due to chance, or talent, it's easy. If it was easy to enter a field that anybody could be good at and make a lot of money 1000 people would have been there yesterday, just like during the dot com bubble when everybody who could hack html was making great money. Today's real estate bubble is the same. Anyone who can calculate amortization and take ridiculous risks is making great money. Of course, when the washout happens the posers get wiped out and the professionals remain.

To find out where you are a professional at, to get to the right place, to fit in and be productive you have to experiment with a lot of different things. Try this, that, etc. Some of it might be hard but don't give up. Hard things are what keep everybody but the motivated out. Just follow Aristotle's famous dictum "Excellence in all things" and it will eventually work out. If you can't be excellent in something find something that you can be excellent in. Keep searching till you find it.