The top 25% — that’s it. Not the best. Not elite. Just better than three out of four people.

According to the late Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created Dilbert, if you can get there in two or three different skill sets, you could become something uncommon. He called it the talent stack.

He wasn’t the best artist. He wasn’t the funniest person in the room. And he wasn’t the best at business. But he was pretty good at drawing, humor, and sales. That combination built a comic strip that ran in 65 countries at one point.

And I think he’s right. We spend so much time chasing greatness in one thing that we forget how powerful it is to be good at a few. The value is in how you put it all together.

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