If you want to be a great Politician, study Law.
Like Margaret Thatcher, Lee Kuan Yew, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Barack Obama, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton.
Politics is, underneath, the business of making, contesting, and enforcing rules - and law is the discipline that teaches how rules actually work: how they're drafted, where they bend, how power is constrained and exercised through them, how to argue a position and anticipate the counter.
A politician who only knows campaigning knows the surface (winning attention); one who knows law knows the machinery (how to actually move legislation, survive scrutiny, and wield procedure). That's why so many heads of state were lawyers firs
If you want to be a great Lawyer, study logic, and rhetoric.
A lawyer who knows law + rhetoric + how humans actually decide is unstoppable
If you want to be a great writer, study people.
If you want be a great businessman, study Engineering.
If you want to be a great manager, study gardening.
It teaches you that you don’t control outcomes directly, you create conditions and then work with a living system that has its own momentum.
You learn principles such as pruning a tree to help it grow.
If you want to be a great engineer, study physics.
If you want to be a great scientist, study philosophy
If you want to be a great teacher, study psychology
If you want to be a great leader, study history
If you want to be a great chef, study chemistry
If you want to be a great architect, study materials
Study the underlying layer beneath it - the thing your field is secretly an application of.
The underlying layer of emergence, because that's where the rules that constrain and govern, your field actually live.
Going multiple layers deep, and adjacent, gives you the ultimate advantage.
Because the best preparation is always indirect