If, hypothetically, you were trying to become a world-class freestyle rapper from scratch, how would you go about it (besides the obvious, e.g. practice, compete, etc)?
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Replying to @eriktorenberg
Semi-serious answer: date the best rapper I can find. Alternatives include making very good friends with them, moving into a house with a bunch of excellent rappers, getting on the organising team of a world-class rap competition.
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Replying to @utotranslucence @eriktorenberg
Someone asked me about this for physics research recently. In retrospect, my answers seem similar to yours, but rather watered down. I'd add: you need to be willing to ask lots of basic questions, and to be comfortable displaying your own ignorance.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @eriktorenberg
I've learnt so much by asking basic questions and displaying my own ignorance... but in many situations don't do it nearly as much as I could.
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Oh! One nice variant on "date the best [etc]": find some way of doing a collaborative project with them (which a relationship is a special case of, anyway). And then ask lots of questions about how they do different things.
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