c.f. Entrepreneurs, engineers, translators, and a long list of professions that I haven’t been a part of long enough to feel that making this observation would be from the inside.https://twitter.com/fromthelabbench/status/946244060225921026 …
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“What’s the secret to learning Japanese, Patrick?” “How much Japanese have you produced in the past year?” “Not so much.” “Your immediate priority should be producing 10X as much.” “How should I practice?” “Any way which accomplished that goal.”
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See also: writing, sales, programming, etc. I think exercise probably works the same way but it’s been a few years since I’ve been disciplined about putting in the time. Things to work on in 2018...
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exercise is good in this way because it lends itself to a fixed schedule and progress is trivially both quantifiable and observable
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. She doubts herself as a budding physicist.
“I’ve met a lot of scientists. They mostly aren’t geniuses. They just enjoy persisting at a single problem way longer than most people would. That’s the secret.”