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Scott Young - Ultralearning

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Asurd, Surprisingly Narrow Path of Success

This also relates to an essay you wrote called the narrow path of success, explaine that you can'd of have to be following the right trackiou be a essful in many ways. Doesn't the example of einstein confound that explanation? Because you have somebody who was a patent clerk and get an academic job many years after he did special relativity. O sillkin get an academic jobs. Yet. Well, i think when i'm talking about the the asurd, surprisingly narrow path to success, this is just sort of this kind of contrary to this idea that people have,. And if you actually get data n on how these couriers actually work, it's clear that's

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