Being a Generalist is Your Greatest Asset After 40

You think you wasted 30 years by not picking one thing and mastering it.

You didn’t.

You were building a neural network of perspective while everyone else was building a single node. They went deep. You went wide.

And now, in your 40s or 50s, you’re realizing the specialists around you can execute within their domain – but they can’t see the architecture between domains.

That’s you.

Here’s what actually happened:

Every “distraction” left residue. The engineering job. The creative side project. The business you started and closed. The philosophy you explored at 2 am.

Each one deposited context. And context is the big moat that matters now.

The specialist spent 30 years mastering one game with fixed rules. You spent 30 years learning how to see patterns across completely different games.

Here’s the part nobody tells you: You cannot see this until you stop apologizing for it!

You’ve been carrying shame about your “scattered” past because the Industrial Age told you that cogs are valuable and architects are confused. That was a lie designed to keep you in the machine.

The machine is dying. And the people who can orchestrate the chaos – the generalists who see connections specialists miss – are the ones who will thrive in what’s coming.

Stop trying to “niche down.” Start recognizing what you built.

The video above breaks down the mechanics of how your residue becomes your advantage. Watch it.