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Can I Be The Best At Everything?

Lukas Schwekendiek
3 min readJul 8, 2021

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First of all: Why is it that you want to be the best at everything? What does that do for you? Will that really make you happy?

Wanting to be the best at everything usually only means that you are not confident enough in being the best at yourself.

Honestly speaking, you cannot be the best at everything anyway.

Being the best at everything would mean you are better at things you did not even try than those that have put in tens of thousands of hours into improving their skills.

Even if you work on everything now, you simply will not have the time to become the best at everything. You are, like everybody else, simply limited by the 24 hours in a day.

It is that timeframe that limits you to being the best at a few, select things if you really invest most of your time into those things, but that being said is it really worth it?

You are already the absolute best at being you. No one can take this away from you, for whenever you change so does the definition of what it means to be the best you.

In that sense, you are the best at everything you do, for it is only you that does them this way.

Furthermore, “being the best at everything” is a very hard thing to quantify as it depends on what goal you are aiming for.

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"

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