we’re doing a lot of “gifted students” a major disservice by telling them they’re going to do interesting work after graduationhttps://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1206260417133023232 …
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“strategic decision making” and “complex problem solving” are a vanishingly small proportion of work that needs to be done and a lot of this work happens to be in deeply banal domains of business and politics
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especially in sf/ny, a lot of my peers are still reeling from the collective shock of this realization i’ve witnessed a whole array of coping mechanisms (meditation, journaling, twitter, substance use/abuse, etc.) jury is still out on the correct cope cocktail—will report back
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Replying to @warmbott @choosy_mom
But think about saying that to kids. That they'll do shit work for quite a while and will have to eventually level up to do work that feels actualizing. Idk if they'll stay motivated hearing that. What do you think?
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tbh i think i would have appreciated a better map of the territory. maybe something like: “it’s not impossible, but v unlikely you’ll have engaging/complex work at 23, but if you work hard and specialize well, you can almost certainly move in that direction after a year or two”
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my friends and i were given this map(probably a cultural thing) and didn't believe it. hence my skepticism of the usefulness of a map. reminded of sapolsky saying the frontal cortex doesn't develop until 25, so decision making and calibration suffers comes to mind.
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Replying to @warmbott @choosy_mom
a corresponding hypothesis i hold is that all these coping mechanisms and reality shocks are a part of ego development and the work needed to integrate lower levels into higher ones as people grow. i read up on this this weekend, might make a thread soon
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