The best trait in traders is the trait of getting shit done. 14 browser tabs 3 bbg screens 5 discord pings a minute a podcast in the background “for learning” 3 overlapping strategies being “tweaked” this produces: an entire cohort of okay-to-good generalists who never break into great at anything the avg aspiring trader (age 20-35) is likely to inhabit the fallacy of trying to be good at everything, have an opinion on everything, making them useless to discuss with and spend energy on. I bet you know some of these people yourself on CT - talks about solana memecoins one day - talks about robotic stocks the next day - talks about hyperliquid ecosystem the next day - is suddenly an expert on iran - next day trying to predict the cpi - suddenly purchases options on eth - invests in 20 seed deals a year the increase of low attention span and high dimensionality of daily tasks creates a shit ton of people who are "okay to good" at a wide span of things but aren't great in a single thing. this is a especially bad habit as a trader since you're trying to compete with everybody. this whole thing is especially fatal in trading because unlike almost every other field, you’re literally competing in real time with everybody else in the world who is better than you. you should: (1) identify an edge (2) slam 100 hours of focused iteration into it before the crowd notices (3) deploy capital without flinching and not try to be everywhere, but stand out nowhere. the aversion of people to just focus on a single thing for longer than a day and just actually trying to be the best informed guy in one field, getting annoying shit actually done, is a cancerous habit a lot of y'all (including me) have.