I tend to take this kind of article with a grain of salt, especially when there are definitive statements like: "To be successful over the course of a career re

I tend to take this kind of article with a grain of salt, especially when there are definitive statements like: "To be successful over the course of a career requires the application and accumulation of expertise". This idea that top-skills are required to succeed is comforting for us craftsmen and craftswomen but ultimately misleading because it forces us to only look for paths leading to skill improvements. I strongly believe that success is mostly opportunity-driven. Exploring the search space to find the most opportunities (ie. the Ferriss way) or exploiting those available by putting the effort in (ie. the craftsmanship way) are two valid non-mutually exclusives strategies. As always, either of them can work but for the best result I believe a combination of the two will outperform any strategy applied narrow-mindedly. Now, for the mixing proportions...