, you don't know if it'll be useful? Well, a writer who does some articles for the Washington Examiner and books and stuff, Tim Carney, said this. He said amateurs think chess masters are planning eight moves ahead. Chess masters know that's impossible. They are thinking about two moves ahead and asking, quote, "How can I put myself in the best position for whatever the heck might come my way?"

Now you recognize that as systems thinking, right? A system is you don't know where it's going to end up but you know if you put this piece in this part of the board it will sort of control an area. So the chess player is playing a system. Obviously there's a goal of winning the game but that's trivial. I mean it's obvious. But the system is not to plan eight in advance. The system is to control territory and you know that sort of thing.

So what about that in your life? So this is what I tell you is that you should develop a talent stack that can give you all kinds of options, right? You want to develop the kinds of skills that would work in every environment. For example, good communication will work in every environment. Being good at dealing with people and negotiating probably works in 90 percent of environments. Yeah, so there are a whole bunch of things that work in any environment. And so you want a system to be as flexible as possible, not a system that prepares you for exactly one thing. Although if you're learning to be a doctor that probably makes sense.

Here's a Wall Street Journal had a really interesting article of something I never would have thought about. That China is having a cousin and uncle shortage. Is that weird? So in traditional Chinese culture you got b