> [!meta]- Document Info > **Author**: [[Dan Hockenmaier]] > **Full Title**: Generalist Disease > **Category**: #articles > > **Summary**: Dan Hockenmaier warns against "Generalist Disease," where professionals chase breadth and prestige but end up feeling stuck in their careers. He suggests that true success comes from narrowing your focus to find what you enjoy and are good at, rather than trying to keep all options open. Ultimately, hard work and specialization in a chosen field lead to greater happiness and success. > > **Source**: [Original URL](https://substack.com/home/post/p-137084788) ## 📄 Full Document → [[Generalist Disease]] ## 🔦 Highlights & Commentary - Ultimately you must specialize to build real leverage, which requires the exact opposite of increasing optionality. It means being intentional about taking options off the table. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jqyc7c819vyy0gpp4jw4689h)) - You ultimately need to switch to chasing *aptitude* and *enjoyment*. If you can find something you are naturally pretty good at and enjoy enough to spend a lot of time on, ultimately you will become very good at it and learn to enjoy it even more. That creates a compounding advantage. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jqycdty82585adpxqjzv7ja9)) - you have to grind. Once you narrow in on the right field, you have to find the parts of it that are the “craft”: the unsexy, manual, and repetitive tasks that you just can’t excel without. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jqycf8y6gy1td30kc4769zme))