If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts. - Naval Ravikant

Compound interest also happens in your reputation. If you have a sterling reputation and you keep building it for decades upon decades, people will notice. Your reputation will literally end up being thousands or tens of thousands of times more valuable than somebody else who was very talented but is not keeping the compound interest in reputation going.

Specific knowledge can be taught through apprenticeships or self-taught.

It's high paying because society has not yet figured out how to teach or automate it.

It tends to be creative or technical.

Build specific knowledge where you are “a natural.”

Happiness Without Material Comfort Is Playing on Hard Mode.