Re Greenspun's bundles of skills: One of the Rich Dad books talk about being "one skill away from great wealth". Because of Robert's best selling book, he is in

Re Greenspun's bundles of skills: One of the Rich Dad books talk about being "one skill away from great wealth". Because of Robert's best selling book, he is interviewed by a young woman who's also a talented writer. But she isn't getting published. He points out that he is a "best selling" author, while she is a "best writing" author. "It's not fair," she says, then reiterates Robert's thesis. I think you can have both bundles. It's just that if it's hard to become really good at just one skill-set, it's going to be twice as hard to be become really good at two. Could be it's even harder - but isn't x2 enough to explain why so few people practice both? I say "practice", because that's how you become really good at something. I fancy myself as a writer. I'm often constructing story outlines. I'm a published author (technical writing, alas). I model my startup/research life on those of writers. In other words, I'm a creator, a builder. It's not just what I do, it's what I value; what is meaningful to me. Yet, I've spent this August researching licensing agreements in my industry, to discover and understand what the standard approaches are, from the web. Once you're into it, it is quite interesting and challenging. It's a lot of work, and terms as used in price-lists and licenses are often ambiguous without the context of their use in action - it's like learning a foreign language from books. That's OK. The problem is that it is worthless in the eyes of a "creator" - my eyes. It's part of "selling". However, it's necessary in order to make money at reasonable rates. It makes sense to practice this skill, and gain this knowledge.