-Let’s define broad as “the whole” -Let’s define narrow as the smallest division -Let’s consider “normal” breadth as the kind of breadth of subject matters that most people engage -Let’s consider “normal” narrow as the kind of focus that most people achieve in their single career First let’s acknowledge that those two are not …
Tag: Luck
UNLUCKY Overstate The Role Of Luck — LUCKY Understate The Role Of Luck
The unlucky overstate the role of luck The lucky understate the role of luck It boils down to incentives, and even to epistemology (theory of knowledge) On the extreme — the extremely lucky has NO DATA invalidating the role of HIMSELF, and something SPECIAL about himself — in his exceptional outcomes He is, …
Why Some Super-Successful Go Conspiratorial
Genius is indeed madness When you’re super brilliant — you risk sometimes being super crazy. That’s the price of trying new, crazy things. But if you pull it off — you’re a genius. Not everyone can be a genius. And likely the genius knew EVERYTHING there was to know — BEFORE he transcended it, pushed …
EPISTEMIC LUCK
It’s not merely that some are smarter than others And it’s not merely that some get more lucky than others There’s also the possibility to DO SMART THINGS by chance So some people are born more fit Let’s just say more smart, not merely in theory but in practice That in and of itself …
You Really Have No Time To Wait For Help
If you solve your problems IN SPITE OF RESISTANCE — then you solved your problems PERIOD (resistance or not) If you don’t solve your problems however — then there’s NO GUARANTEE they will ever be SOLVED — even if the resistance is alleviated There is only now Right now you have a problem Right …
Life Gives You Exactly What You Need
Life gives you either exactly what you want, or NOT exactly what you want If it gives you NOT what you want — it forces you to YOURSELF take what you want That process of taking what you want, taking responsibility — is indeed the process of growing and evolving and elevating …
We Used to Call It Magic
We used to call it MAGIC or GOD That which we couldn’t explain Couldn’t understand Today we call it a “CONSPIRACY”, or a “SCAM” That which we don’t understand we call “conspiracy”, or “scam” We don’t understand how a single individual could be making 1000 times more than you and I We could call …
Too Good To Be True
“It’s too good to be true” No, not necessarily There’s what you know is possible There’s what you know is not possible And there’s what you don’t know is possible That which you don’t know if it’s possible — that will elude your imagination You’ll say it’s “too good to be true”, or …
Don’t Be Sceptical — Be NAIVE
In life-living : you want to be NAIVE. You don’t want to be cynical. You don’t even want to be sceptical Of course you don’t want to be too naive. You don’t want to hit an absorbing barrier: you don’t want to die, you don’t want to go broke, you don’t want to damage your …
Neither Innovative Nor Traditional Can Be Appraised
You want to know what’s the next big thing going to be You want to know what’s the next big thing NOT going to be You want to know where to put your resources: your time, your energy, your capital, your attention You live in the world therefore you’re interested in the world therefore you’re …