In the middle of the desert you can say anything you want
A very nice scale in the multimedia appendix, with ideas on what to track
*In order to get at you individually, I must talk in the first person. I
have to get you to drop modesty and say to yourself, “Yes, I would like
to do first-class work.” *
One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that
John Tukey was slightly younger than I was. John was a genius and I
clearly was not. Well I went storming into Bode’s office and said, “How
can anybody my age know as much as John Tukey does?” He leaned back in
his chair, put his hands behind his head, grinned slightly, and said,
‘''“You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know if you
worked as hard as he did that many years.” ‘‘‘I simply slunk out of the
office!
What Bode was saying was this: Knowledge and productivity
are like compound interest. Given two people of
approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more
than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former.
The more you know, the more you learn; the more you
learn, the more you can do; the more
you can do, the more the opportunity —
it is very much like compound interest. I
don’t want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two
people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in
and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously
more productive over a lifetime.
*but the idea is that *solid work, steadily applied,
gets you surprisingly far
*Darwin writes in his autobiography that *he found it
necessary to write down every piece of
evidence which appeared to contradict his
beliefs because otherwise they would disappear
from his mind.
This is actually interesting. The subconscious works only on problems you=it find important!
Some quotes:
His book is called Mastering The Core Teachings Of The Buddha, but he could also have called it Buddhism For ER Docs. ER docs are famous for being practical, working fast, and thinking everyone else is an idiot. MCTB delivers on all three counts
A useful way to recognize status quo bias is to ask, “What things wouldn’t be allowed if they were introduced today?” Here are some examples.
The five laws of behavioral genetics are: All human behavioral traits are heritable The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of the genes. A substantial portion of the variation in complex human behavioral traits is not accounted for by the effects of genes or families. A typical human behavioral trait is associated with very many genetic variants, each of which accounts for a very small percentage of the behavioral variability. All phenotypic relationships are to some degree genetically mediated or confounded.
According to the Jack-of-all-trades theory, people with a balanced set of skills are more suitable for self-employment than are those without. In this paper we test this theory using Swedish Military Enlistment data. […] We find clear support for the Jack-of-all-trades theory, in the sense that the likelihood of being self-employed is higher for individuals whose skills are balanced. In addition, their earnings from self-employment tend to be higher.
My God, this is excellent
As recommended on Melting Asphalt as example of a good sermon
DENIAL - “There’s no way I could be gifted!”
EXCITEMENT - “This explains so much of my life!”
ANGER - “Why didn’t anyone tell me this before?” and “Why don’t others care now?”
BARGAINING / DEPRESSION / PANIC - “Can I give it back?"…“OMG I can’t give it back!”
ACCEPTANCE - “Ok, this is how I am. How am I going to use it to my advantage?”
REBUILDING - “I’m doing the work to rebuild myself based on who I am.”
CREATIVITY - “What else can I create from my unique self?”