It's No Secret With Dr T.

My guest today is Pat Flynn from Westchester Pennsylvania. Pat is an author, fitness minimalist, business coach, guitarist and podcaster. He helps people do more with less and this is what our conversation is all about, the power of being a generalist, not a specialist. The world is obsessed with specialists: We’re often taught to specialise. Don’t try and be a jack-of-all-trades, but as Pat explains it’s better to be Good-To-Great at many things. You’ll achieve more by being a generalist For example, Jimmy Hendrix was a generalist, not a specialist. It was his breadth rather than depth of skill that made him so popular. He was a very good guitar player, but was not the best in the world. But Hendrix could also sing, write, perform and had amazing charisma. People loved him because he was a generalist. There’s a huge difference between a musician and specialist guitar player. Pat Flynn has never won a gold medal, or as he explained been the best at anything, but he’s good to great in many areas, such as fitne