A Few Life Lessons (3) – Scalable Career

Choose a career that is scalable. [An advice flow from Nasim Taleb to me which he got from one of his seniors]
Here is an example.

An artist with his/her new album, doesn’t have to sing those song for each set of different audience. The songs are recorded and made into an album and could be replicated zillion times for it to be used by entire human kind. And it can also be stored for the future generations as well. So the effort is the same if its for 10 audience or 100 million audience. That’s the power of scalability.

Compare this with a top neuro surgeon. No matter how good she is, she always has to be there (operating theatre) to operate on the patients. To serve 100 patients she has to be there with 100 patients and operate at least 100 times (hopefully she is good enough that an operation is enough to treat his patients). She can’t just operate a masterpiece operation and wish it to be replicated.

Picture: [My room] Golf ball and my Music Controller