Depressing thought. For at least 20 years I’ve been consciously solving for being more lucky, and it’s worked much better than I expected. But in the process I’ve kinda gotten used to being lucky, and that has made me stupider. I was much smarter when I was average-lucky.
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Is that realization part of why you now advocate mediocrity? In practice, 'cultivating habits of excellence' doesn't look too different from 'solving for being more lucky'. Both establish a limiting 'new normal'. Maybe mediocrity minus new normals trumps excellence plus them.
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Arvind Iyer Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
Can we say that the below thread is a “case for ensemble mediocrity” whereas your tweet above is an argument for mediocrity at the level of the individual?https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1087186955467554816 …
Arvind Iyer added,
Venkatesh Rao @vgrOne reason I champion mediocrity is that alternative is obviously dystopian: Upper class of exceptional superhumans Middle class of robots Lower class of broken, institutionalized people who failed to be exceptional, and regressed right past human mean to “driven crazy.”Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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