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32. Which Gets You Further: Talent or Effort?

No Stupid Questions

How to Map Newtonian Mechanics on to Your Concept of Achievement

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i wanted to map newtonian mechanics on to my developing theory of achievement. So i wrote that paper with a computer scientist, unger, and also somebody who had been a physicist before he was a psychologious,. johannes eicstat. And i knew that to simesters of physics in college was not enough of foundation. I took the simplest of newton's ideas - distance equals rate times time. But just taking that simple idea that distance egles rate time, time is kind of like skill. If i multiply your skill as a freconomic producer times the amount of energy you put into it, i will get how much you accomplish. That's right.

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