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Skills make you valuable. And value brings money. This is where being highly skilled in certain fields gives you an advantage.

Seth Godin illustrates this well in his book, The Dip:

“A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he…

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