All collections have constraints. Your house can only hold so many books, for example. And even when physical space isn’t the constraint, something else is; you can have as much digital music as you want, but eventually, your collection will grow too large to actually listen to in your lifetime.
The point is that for anything you like and want in your life, you’ll eventually have to filter it. You’ll have to pick and choose. When you first get into anything, you grab anything you can reach. When you first get into music you might want every album you can get. Sooner or later, though, you reach the constraints.
At that point, you become faced with a difficult, even unpleasant realization. Even though there are things you want, the barrier isn’t your ability to get it – it’s your inability to displace anything else you already have for it.
See, as you add and remove things from any collection, that collection grows more strongly aligned to your preferences. Soon almost everything that’s “made the cut” is outstanding by your point of view. This means things that are merely “great” no longer warrant inclusion because you’ve reached the walls.
I mean, it’s a good problem to have, in a way. But never forget – tastes change. Leave a little room at the margins, and don’t be afraid to be wrong about things now and then.
The Opportunity Machine 