292 David Epstein: Why Experimentation (Not Narrow Focus) Is Key to Long-term Success
Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney Johnson
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Don't Feel Left Behind
Don't feel behind was one of them. I think our intuition is to see, like, if two people are separated by X amount on Y skill and we're looking at both of them at the same time; they will always be separated by that same amount. And there is very, very few things in literature on skill development where that is true. There's like dips and plateaus and, you know, hot streaks and all these sorts of things. So I think feeling behind can lead people to do things that actually can get them behind,. To do things that are sort of quick fixes instead of building up a toolkit.
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