A good thread about tertiary education:https://twitter.com/austenallred/status/972346041189019648 …
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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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My cofounder at my last company kept wondering when he was going to get in trouble at his day job because he was spending so much effort on the startup. He never did -- he was still outperforming the rest of his team, and when he finally quit they tried to counter offer.
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