<\/a>That is why so many people’s perceptions of “specialization” fall short of what they ought to be. Yes, we all can be great at something, but we also need to be good at other things. Especially those things that are adjacent to what we “specialize” in. Those adjacent skills, competencies, activities, businesses, etc, may not appear to be directly related to the primary pursuit of your life, but they should certainly support, buttress and complement what it is you do. Above all, your specialty ought to be something that serves the needs and, to a certain extent, the aspirations of others. Take throwing a punch, for example. Do you realize that, when you throw a punch, you’re not just using your fist and your arm? You’re using almost your entire body, in fact! Your waist turns with the throw of the punch to add more torque. Your toes dig in and propel you forward for added force. Your opposing arm is drawn back both for balance and a little more torque as well. All for a simple punch.<\/span><\/p>\nSo, remember, when you opt to specialize in something, make sure that it genuinely helps others, for a start. And make sure that you become good at those things which are adjacent to whatever it is you’re doing. Those adjacent things actually support whatever it is you’re specializing in. Then you will find that your specialty enters the realm of spaciousness, where there is room to grow. Otherwise, it will just be the embodiment of mediocrity. Speciousness.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’ve all heard the conventional wisdom that we need to be specialized in something, be very good at something that only we can do, or we won’t get much attention and we won’t get much market share. Well, I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been known to be highly unconventional. I am not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,11,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Specialist.jpg?fit=341%2C234&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2EiEv-CI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9333,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/9333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}