Best Career Advice Comes From Cartoonist

I was reading part of Marc Anderson's treatise on managing your career and saw the quote he had from Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams about the 25% career formula that I found very interesting:

"If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths:

1. Become the best at one specific thing.
2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things."

Can you guess which of the above is the key to success for writing Dilbert? This is some of the best career advice I have ever seen. Not everyone can be the next Tiger Woods but everyone has at least a few things that are pretty good at; maybe not the best, but pretty good. And that just might be the key to your success.

If you follow the link to Scott's post you should take a few minutes to read the comments. People just started listing out what things they were good at (in the top 25%) and I thought that was very cool.

So what's in your top 25%?