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David Epstein: Curiosity as a Calling S2 E11

Meditations with Zohar

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How to Measure Progress as a Generalist

I think one of the advantages of competition also is being able to measure your progress like how am I doing well. When you get to this more spiritual point of view for lack of a better word it's very hard to benchmark yourself maybe you can compete with yourself. Ed Catmull used to be the president of Pixar his book creativity Inc where he talks about how he's like life is devoted to making the first ever fully computer animated film and then they do that with Toy Story and it should be his dream come true.

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