Episode 27 of The Rewired Podcast is now live.
This one is for everyone who’s been told to pick a lane and felt something die inside when they tried.
The most repeated advice in the self-improvement world is the one most likely to wreck you. Pick a lane. Niche down. Find your one thing. Go deep, not wide.
If you have multiple genuine interests and you’ve spent years trying to comply with this, you already know the specific shame it produces.
I competed on MasterChef: The Professionals. Built a seven-figure recruitment business. Started running ultramarathons. Got sober. Wrote a book. Now I write a newsletter read by 1000 people in 90 countries, and host a podcast.
That’s not a niche. That’s a body of work.
I tried to narrow it down half a dozen times. At the advice of people who were right about most things but wrong about my specific situation. I’m glad I didn’t listen.
The niche advice is correct for one type of person: the one with no clear direction who needs to commit to something and stop drifting. It’s quietly destructive for another type entirely: the person with three or four genuine skills, all pulling against each other, none willing to step aside.
What looks like scatter from the outside is synthesis from the inside. You’re building something that doesn’t have a name yet. The confusion is the process. Leaving before it resolves is the only real mistake.
7 minutes on why the combination you’re building is yours alone, and why the people who don’t narrow down tend to produce things no one else could have. Click above to listen.
-Chris
P.S. What’s the combination you haven’t been able to let go of? The interests that don’t fit together yet but won’t leave you alone. That’s not a problem. That’s the work.
