danman5550
07/22/12 8:49 am
I'd want to be the best baseball player ever. Not average at all of them. That didn't get Bo Jackson anywhere.
hexin Wisconsin
07/20/12 5:15 pm
I'm guessing if I were best at one thing it would be something stupid and useless. BTW I am awesome at Dance Dance Revolution.
07/19/12 1:56 am
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
07/19/12 1:55 am
cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - RobertHeinlein, writing specialist
ronpaul
07/19/12 1:52 am
I'd say everything. You could be much better than everybody at one thang. Not really specific. You could be better at telling what time it is based off sun position... Who would care about that talent..
banAnna Ohio
07/18/12 7:27 am
Being great at one thing makes you stand out amongst the crowd. It also shows how everybody is unique in their own way.
prterri
07/17/12 7:38 pm
I'll take better at everything. I love doing a variety of things and it's fun to do things well. Only being good (even great) at one think would bore me.
tamtam
07/17/12 12:29 pm
I would prefer be the best at one thing and I would make a career of that because people will always pay more for the best.
07/17/12 6:56 am
No matter how much you try, there will always be someone else that is better than you. But hey at least your trying aye?
T21Money
07/17/12 5:51 am
What if that 1 thing was something like "fastest toilet paper roller" or something pointless like that lol
Phycoz
07/17/12 12:11 am
If you were better than 90% of the world at everything, there would still be around 7,000,000 people along with you in that 10%
Topgun California
07/16/12 10:18 pm
I already am better at everything than 90% of people so I would choose one thing, but 1 in a million still isn't that good because if I chose basketball then 320 people would still be better than me in america and I would just be "average".
Zod Above Pugetropolis
07/16/12 9:59 pm
JaquesV having spent a fair bit of a previous life working as a systems programmer, the answer to your iOS question is the red slice of his poll. Too many talented people that do exactly one thing, and, unfortunately only that one thing, too well to listen to the other talented people around them.
JaquesV Bentonville, AR
07/16/12 9:10 pm
The odds are better if you go with the 90% option.
And why did Apple design the stinking iOS keyboard this way? I have to click three buttons to make the percent sign...
07/16/12 8:05 pm
I'm already working on knife throwing, arrows, and even poison darts.
tanner904
07/16/12 6:11 pm
I'd much rather be better the 99.999% of people at one thing as long as I could pick. If ur in that group at almost any profession including sports then life will be really good if ur just in the top 10% at everything ur good but not near the best at anything
Vincere Seattle
07/16/12 5:52 pm
@tcby, If you are in the top 10% of the population, that does not translate to being in the top 10% of a given profession because people in that field are already specialized. Even a bad accountant knows more about accounting than 90% of people, because more than 90% of people aren't accountants.
tcby
07/16/12 5:19 pm
Mrm27 - but that doesn't mean all 10% are actually employed in said field.
And as one of the top 10% my chances of finding employment in that field is dang good considering the multitude of companies that service each major field of employment.
Zod Above Pugetropolis
07/16/12 4:51 pm
If you do everything good, never do anything for free. Being limited to one thing gets you stuck in a rut.
Just playing, but seriously, what if your one thing is something like accounting? SOS every day? No thank you!
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