Talent Stack Original Painting

16" x 16" Original Painting by Jason Kotecki. Oil on canvas, made with professional quality archival grade art materials. Comes finished in a matte black floater frame with a hanging wire. 

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The Story

We often assume that success requires us to be great at one thing. The truth is you only need to be pretty good at a handful of ordinary skills.

You just need to build a talent stack. Scott Adams, the creator of the comic strip Dilbert, popularized this concept which states that you can ensure success by assembling a “stack” of two or more complementary skills and be in the top 25 percent or so in each. Do that and you’ll be unstoppable.

It took me a few years to realize that three of my best talents—art, writing, and speaking—were not separate skills that operated independently, but part of a talent stack, that when used in harmony became even more powerful.

Your talent stack will look different, but the premise is the same. Start with natural strengths and abilities and work to make them better. Think about how they can work together in unexpected ways, even if they seem unrelated.

Remember, you don’t have to turn yourself into the foremost expert on any of these skills. Just be in the top 25 percent. Said another way, in a world of around eight billion people, you only need to be among the top two billion.

In other words, pretty good is good enough.