You don’t have to be good at everything. Great at two things beats okay at twenty.

Spreading effort thinly produces competence everywhere and distinction nowhere, and competence is common. Depth requires concentration, which means deliberately being worse at some things. That trade feels like loss right up to the point where the depth starts paying anything back.

Name the two things you want to be genuinely good at and let several others be openly average. Say no to opportunities in the discarded categories without a long explanation attached. Check in a year whether the narrowing gave you more room rather than less.