David Epstein

And I think when people have too much, like to Bill Gurley's more startups die of indigestion than starvation quote,

you're not forced to be resourceful and you're not forced to clarify priorities.

And so you don't, and I actually don't think that's a good thing for people, right?

It's like you, I don't think it's good for work and I don't think it's good for having meaning in your life to kind of always have your options infinitely open.

I feel like

Because I'm conscious that it may sound like sometimes I'm contradicting, at least the title of the book sounds like I'm contradicting range, my previous book, which is about broad experiences.

But it actually felt like a natural next question to me where it's, okay, you get this broad tool set.

At some point, you have to focus this into something, into achievement, hopefully into meaning and satisfaction.

And I've kind of found that in a lot of really talented or hardworking people,

they may over-index on optionality, like keeping their options open all the time because they can.

Maybe they're very talented or they're very hardworking or lucky or whatever it is.

But sometimes I think that can actually really backfire if people start making decisions, if keeping your options open becomes an end unto itself.

And so I think I've seen some very talented peers and friends endlessly keep their options open in a way that actually doesn't help them

reach better satisfaction.

I'm not sure I'm articulating that well.

Makes you think a lot harder about what your decisions if you're doing it in ink.

I mean, again, that was like part of General Magic's big problem was deciding what not to do.

But I think about that all the time in things like our information diet, right?

Like people are overwhelmed, right?

there's so many things that seem interesting.