The reasons I haven't, really, yet, are (a) the last three months have been something of a "purple patch" for me anyway,
Not really. In Engineering, you can learn 80-95% of what you need in the first 1-3 years. If longer then 5 years, then you're a slow learner.I think the "Masters" can trade any timeframe and any market, and why they are masters of trading/make the biggest bucks. Longer you stay playing the game, you get to witness your evolution, game gets easier as you memorize less, what you might have thought was very important isn't and what you thought was not needed is most important. Really take decades to prove to yourself of your capabilities might be unlimited, but have to keep working at it, easy to forget especially if you have gotten into automation, you have to continue to "play the game" on charts to not lose what took years to understand. You constantly teaching your brain what you are seeking so the brain is selecting certain criteria setups so you can back test them, when brain gets pretty good at it, losses turn into more of disappointments than anger as brain after awhile expects to seldom have losses.
If you were doing engineering 30 years, each year that becoming easier as you have learned much and each year require less new memorizing, so you have answers much faster.
There's a big difference between:... Also it's hard to be a master of anything if you spread your focus on everything. People want to hire masters not jacks. Jacks can work the low level jobs. Master experts get pay the big dollar...
you are not talking about performance greatness and how to achieve it,There's a big difference between:
Fewer and fewer occupations allow one to be effective in a role or in accomplishing goals if you've only focused on one thing. Those hiring know this, and the trend over the past ten years (more?) is a strong & increasing demand - with big bucks - for competent generalists with the mix of specific skills for an environment. And they'd better be prepared to become competent in others as the need to have those in the mix arises; you need a track record of being able of doing so.
- Jack of all/several vs. Jack only knows one thing at a low level, or thinking that Jack of All means Jack only knows at a low level.
- "Spreading your focus on everything" vs. shifting your focus to acquire a knowledge or skill that will add to your repertoire.
That said, some people can only work with blinders on; others are moving up/down layers of abstraction, sifting left & right, and inside/outside the box, bringing bits & pieces or whole solutions or methodologies in from all over; and there's a whole bunch of people scaled in between.
Also it's hard to be a master of anything if you spread your focus on everything. People want to hire masters not jacks. Jacks can work the low level jobs. Master experts get pay the big dollar.
He hires the best mathematicians, physicists, computational linguistics, computer scientists, etc. Almost never hire MBA types.