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#015 David Perell: Intellectual Openness, Mental Models for Success, and Peculiar Ways of Looking at The World

Smart Friends

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What's the Difference Between the Best Pitchers and the Worst Hitters?

The best pitchers in the major leagues tend to be the worst hitters. It's just the specialization thing, that when you aren't dealing on this global plane of competition, what happens is people really begin to specialize. And so it makes a lot of sentse o sort of foster people to teach the next nested skill within the skill that you're teaching.

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