When a skill becomes widely attainable, people feel pressure to seek a rarer, higher-leverage skill to prove their value.

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• Those who rise to the top are generally talented, but because skill is hard to assess, success also depends on career assets that signal skill. SYScott H. Young30 Sept 2026
• The valuable skill is stopping and recovering while the work is still unfinished, not the capacity to push yourself harder. OBOliver Burkemanby 29 Jul 2021
• The more things are handed to people, the more value will lie in the ability to do difficult things. KAKris Abdelmessih27 Sept 2026
• High performers possess an initial edge that leads to increasing returns to scale through harder work and skill acquisition. ZMZvi Mowshowitz16 Oct 2026
• The career ladder was built on an old constraint: that more impact meant more people underneath you. EVElena Verna10 Sept 2026

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