My 10 year old asked how to be good at things. I told him that how good people were at something depended on: (a) natural ability, (b) practice, and (c) how into it they were.
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Everyone knows about (a) and (b), so the biggest mistake people make in understanding performance, in so many different contexts, is ignoring the role of (c).
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Is (c) programmable by the person or a fixed constant like talent?
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Replying to @draecomino
There are acquired tastes, but you can't force yourself to acquire arbitrary tastes.
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