1/ This podcast from @david_perell w/ @webdevMason resonated with my personal experience a lot. Especially the part about the power of following obsessions.https://www.perell.com/podcast/mason-hartman …
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2/ I don't mean that in the sense that the obsession serves as a source of infinite and ever-renewing motivation. (It doesn't.) But, what it does do — at least for me — is changes my orientation to what I'm trying to do or figure out.
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3/ The mental models I get from the things I'm into obsessively are these rich and complex things. The mental models I get from things I have to do by dictate? Badly drawn and compliant only to the minimum degree necessary.pic.twitter.com/k58tzpuDNo
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4/ What they kinda went into in the podcast that I liked to hear someone say is that there are few allowances for allowing children to follow those paths in school. And sometimes I think that lack of permission calcifies into a barrier for self-direction.
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5/ Like, it *may* be a bit of a self-selection issue (I don't think it is), but everyone I grew up with had something they were REALLY INTO for at least a few years. But it existed a world parallel to their education and the tended towards atrophy or hypoxia or something.
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6/ Anyways, I think the podcast is worth a listen. COVID puts this great big simulation at a very high temperature. Once it eventually does start to cool down, we'll find ourselves in new configurations — and we can guide the path followed to some degree.
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