We were talking about something the other day when our CEO Brent said, “That’s outside my circle of competence…and my circle of care.”
I laughed and replied, “I am pretty sure you could competently understand this, but I also get that you don’t care.” And then I said that I liked that turn of phrase…circle of care.
Buffett and Munger, of course, made famous one’s circle of competence. That’s the idea that you shouldn’t do stuff you don’t understand. But circle of care is perhaps a more important concept. It’s the idea that not every problem is or should be your problem.
Because we should all be ruthless about what we choose to care about.
This isn’t necessarily to say that some things are more important than others (though some things are) or that some things are more appropriately left to others (though some things are). And it’s also not as flippant as pointing out that something is a “YP.”
Rather, it’s that none of us have the capacity to care about everything, so if something matters or needs to get done, if you don’t have to care about it, it means that someone you trust has it handled instead. And if someone you trust has it handled, well, you’re golden…as long as that someone you trust also knows when to ask for help.
– Tim
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