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Malcolm Gladwell Questions Everything
WorkLife with Adam Grant
Is It Better to Be Consistently Good Than Intermittently Excellent?
I like your argument, if I can put it in psychology language, is that it's not his maximum performance that makes him great. And I think that's actually true probably for most people. It so happens that I valorize typical performance and you have an affection for optimal performance. But this is the explanation. A comedian is measured in terms of their optimal performance. They have a carefully rehearsed, time-limited performance,. That is how we come to understand their genius. The right answer is that both are impressive for very different reasons.
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