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#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Third Pillar of Emotional Labor

Duke of Edinburgh says learning to see the world as it is important. He believes that if no one has ever done the work you hope to do, then you might be deluding yourself. If there's a well trodden path and people have gone on that path than you may be able to follow it. The third pillar is how much emotional labor are you able and willing to expend to accomplish the thing you set out to? When i think about learning versus education, which i can talk about for hours, education is compliance. Education is coercion. Learning is serial incompetence on our way to getting better.

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