“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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99.999%of people are not geniuses. They make everything work, they create, they use... What matters is not stubbornness but wanting to do the work.
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I fit into some of the professions you mention: entrepreneur and translator; also author and marketer, now learning to code. Some are part of the past, some are current, some are still to come
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Confirmed. I’ve lifted weights casually for most of my life and it was fine. Two years ago, I went from two to three days a week (added a dedicated Leg Day
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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.”