Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
I inherited Mom’s verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school – and won every essay contest I ever entered.
It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
In running Wilson Sonsini, it’s all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.
A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.