The Secret to Being Good at Many Things

Is to just pick one thing.

Having a library of skills to draw from gives you an edge. Source: author.

There comes a time for all of us when we must fend for our lives against a drunk German ex-drug dealer. My time came on a Saturday. At 2.30 a.m. In the kitchen of my shared flat in Munich.

“I’ll break your nose,” he announced, leaning towards me balefully. The threat, delivered in a vapor cloud of Glenfiddich, single malt…