The Talent Stack: How To Make The Most Out Of your Abilities

Scott Adams once said: "When you add in my ordinary business skills, my strong work ethic, my risk tolerance, and my reasonably good sense of humor, I’m fairly unique. And in this case that uniqueness has commercial value." Next to being the creator of the Dilbert Comics and author of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, he phrased the term “Talent Stack”.
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[@andreacaputo729]

"You can escape competition through authenticity" is a remarkably concise way of describing what we should all strive for

[@jadarab4961]

An added idea would be metaskills. When you learn math and computer science you are also progressing your problem solving skill. When you learn language and communication you are progressing your Articulation skill. You are truly a special content creator. Great video!

[@paddaboi_]

High class content and you've really helped me on my journey, I'm currently in 12th grade so this helps prepare me for the real world and trying to make the most out of it🙏

[@alihussein1005]

Your content is on absolutely different level . Keep up the work 👏👏

[@ahmedfetni9349]

extermely insightful channels like this make youtube the best platform/site ever made

[@tillmusshoff]

Thanks! And I agree, YT is the best to me too :)

[@phoenixking4443]

Video game skill tree reference? You got my like.

[@boldenggar]

God DAIM, these videos are good. I love your content. Really cool video game analogy. Your visuals and graphics are awesome and really help elevate your explanations. Have your ever though about creating an email lists, so that if something were to happen to your KZbin channel, a larger part of your audience would remain. Forget it, I see you have a discord. Count me as a new member.

[@vinzent345]

Your content is really great, I thought a long time about that stuff and noticed that you layered model is in it's core just some kind of sub tree of a bigger graph. If you try to build a general model of all talents using your model you notice really fast that you can't display the whole thing because you got the limitation that a talent can only be build from the layer directly underneath it. Most talents are however connected with so many topic that are beneath or above it that you can't build this structure without contradictions or missing connections. You are right that there are abstractions that contain more subtopics than others, like math or physics and probably don't inherit from others, but these are also interconnected with each other and can form loops. In a graph structure without limitations these topics in the bottom would probably be those with the most interconnections. The interesting constructivist thing is that if you try to map every abstraction of a bigger one, for example of a chair, your only data you end up are the connections to other abstractions. That means that the actual definition of knowledge are the abstractions that have the most connections to other topics. I guess your model could be interesting if you focus just on one talent, from that one you could build some kind of tree resulting in these root categories like mathematics, unless there are loops the layered thing would work. Let me know if you have any thoughts about this. (Even Math has some connections to the definition of the world to the single charaters to the human perception etc., there is no actual root abstractions. They exist by loops of abstractions that they created by themselves. The first abstraction is probably the question about how the universe was created.) :)

[@vzuzukin]

Your first layer is secondary school 🏫 Your second layer is college/university degree 🏫 You have "rediscovered" the traditional education curriculum of the 20th century. Congratulations!

[@tillmusshoff]

This is mostly accurate lol

[@abraxadabra4224]

Not really true if you go t school in Italy or other European countries where your Uni degree isn't strictly dependent on your secondary school. I did a Humanities secondary school and science at university. I've worked in education and in sales. How do you find out what to do next? I've got lots of interest from microbiology to product design or marketing.

[@NovatronIT]

Till, you rock man!

[@ItsYounessi]

I have also gotten to the exact same conclusion as you but through a completely different skillstack. The recent videos you are making are 🔥 and so important! They deliver the core fundamental knowledge that is required to understand how to be a creative, how to build a successful business or any other long term vision that you might have with out fluff. I would love to connect with you Till! Do you perhaps have a community yet?

[@tillmusshoff]

Thank you! Link to my Discord is in the video description :)

[@joaogunther1330]

Great video, as always!

[@tillmusshoff]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Futurehiopia]

Your video is absolutely amazing; could you make a video on "iki gai"?

[@heshamalgebalee2293]

I wonder which is better Imagine the specialized point that u reach at the end of ur learning journey is point "C", the starting point or the foundation of ur learning skills is point "A" and everything in between is point "B". Is it better to know point C then defining ur points A&B to meet the required point C OR is it better to just have points A&B as what u feel that u r interested in (for say u were interested in math & programming , then after learning some math and programming u figured that u r interested in some branch in the math&programming u have been studying and u go on so on and so forth with only ,studying only what interest you) then finding out what all ur knowledge from A&B has ended up with and figure out ur position which is point C OR to make a mix of the two (like doing what u enjoy in A and 50% of B and in the other 50% of B and C you just see what desiring end point you want to get to and work accordingly to get to it) To make it easy to understand and short : imagine u r an archer and u r throwing an arrow at a space full of target marks, is it better to 1. See a mark u like and aim ur arrow at it, 2.throw the arrow aimlessly(in q position ur muscles feels relaxed in) and see where it lands, 3. Throw the arrow aimlessly but mid way you use ur weak telekinesis powers to adjust a little bit the arrow's end target. (This has been a delima bothering me for a while and I feel like u could help me with it)

[@zeekcom12]

@4:48 deffently putting this n the portfolio

[@swordsimkid23]

I've been looking for something like this for a long time, I never had a name to it other than real life tech tree and that doesn't go far

[@dna8269]

Excellent video as always! As a sidenote, how do you go about creating animations to illustrate your points such as 4:15 ?

[@tillmusshoff]

Thank you! I bought a handful of animation presets for infographics etc. for Final Cut over the years. They help with some of the groundwork. This section still took me 2h easily.

[@Doppisingh]

Are you doin this for me?!!

[@thedanksoul]

games have been giving us the knowledge to rule the world for decades, we were just too dumb to see ;-;

[@happyandhealthy888]

charge is everything

[@ArchivingClownWorld]

Nice - Path of Exile

[@codeintherough]

Too me it makes more sense to use books instead, find one really good book on copywriting for instance, for your specialization youll study several books worth of information. For sub specialties one book

[@tillmusshoff]

Sounds good to me

[@flyingguitarist7026]

Since when did you start watching Dan's videos? His content is amazing

[@tillmusshoff]

Just recently, I listened to 3 or 4 on some of my runs.

[@happyandhealthy888]

ich höre nachts geräusche

[@abraxadabra4224]

Well this explains why my characters in FFX weren't strong enough: I developed them too broadly. Same goes for myself - I studied Humanities from 14-20, did molecular biotechnology as BSc, worked as a kid's home work tutor and science club communicator, now work as an account manager/sales department at a Functional Medicine Company. Can someone tell me what the hell I'm supposed to do with my life please?? 😭😭😭😭

[@tillmusshoff]

Sounds like you could do lots of things. That's an advantage, not a disadvantage.

[@happyandhealthy888]

Narava expandira

[@bitcoinshopmiami]

it's missing praxeology

[@DMT4Dinner]

There are 8 billion ppl now. Do we make a difference by making a living, or make a living by making a difference?

[@mjt1517]

How are eight billion people each going to make a difference?

[@DMT4Dinner]

@@mjt1517 by being everyone legally allowed to kill another animal, and chose peace, among the company of vegan top bodybuilders and athletes

[@BrotherPo]

"Sack ic"? "Sacil"? Midjourney isn't ready to add text to images yet, buddy.

[@tillmusshoff]

I know, doesn‘t matter for this purpose.

[@mukmarkes4151]

Dilbert is just the worst. It overflows with emotional immaturity and boomer hubris. Mocking everyone, pretending to be the elightened, while actually not solving a single damn thing. *slow clap*

[@tillmusshoff]

No idea, never read a single Dilbert comic.

[@mukmarkes4151]

Aaand, Adams/Dilbert is gone. 😅 I like your video. Maybe redo it without the Scott Adams references.

[@mjt1517]

@@mukmarkes4151 yes, give in to the weird memoryholing authoritarian types love to do. Erase the devil! Strip him of his achievements and contributions because he thought wrongly!! Punish the wicked!

[@mjt1517]

It's a comic strip. You're overthinking it.