When you succeed at your goals or become an expert in your field, don't stop there. Try this instead.
compliance; he became an expert in it. He then quit that topic, which is when he came up with the idea of EBM, for which he became much more famous, and which turned out to be much more important than anything he could have achieved in the world of compliance.
That takes me to my final rationale. For everything, there is a season. There’s a time to be an expert at this; and a time to be expert at that. You don’t need to be expert at the same thing forever. You’ll never know, in fact, if the next great thing might happen unless you stop doing the last great thing.You should change what you do, or how you live, every ten years. Now there’s a range; if things are going terribly, make a change in five years.
When you succeed at something you’ve sought, you can stop there and keep doing it forever. In academic life, this is a constant chronic disease. Someone starts out in their thirties and becomes known for some tiny field of expertise by their forties; then they get tenure, a guaranteed income, and they repeat the same ideas for the next 40 years, the second half of their lives, essentially doing nothing until time runs out. And that’s considered a successful academic career.
They should just focus on the next ten years. And then after that, if they are very successful, they should quit what they are doing and focus on another ten years. It doesn’t matter, in fact, whether they succeed or fail, they should plan on making a change every decade or so. Too often, we think we should make a change only if things aren't going well or if we are failing in some way. That is so. But what we don’t realize is that we should make changes even when we succeed.
Of course, if you have success with something you’ve been doing for a decade or two, you can keep doing it, and you’ll have some security that you’ll have the same level of success for decades more. And maybe that’s all you want. But there are good reasons to think otherwise if you’re willing to take a little risk and open yourself up to even greater rewards.
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