You may enjoy a stint in founding a company if your snap take is “No way could it be that high; doesn’t have the ring of truth for me or anyone I consider a close peer.”https://twitter.com/austenallred/status/972349490093961216 …
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I think that there’s something a wee bit more going on there than self-motivating people being rare. Let’s say self-motivation is culturally inculcated, can be trained in both directions, is complex, and has a distribution somewhat similar to other qualities which are useful.
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The memeplex that is the American middle class rewards strategic level self-motivation (you need to be able to convince yourself at age 10~12 that I Pass Tests Because I Pass Tests and continue that for at least *a decade* knowing in advance it will take a decade).
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It severely penalized tactical level self-motivation, which is why people who are able to carry plans to fruition on decade+ timescales find themselves pathologically incapable of “adulting” trivial tasks which take entire minutes of attention and/or an organized system.
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