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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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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?
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One 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.”
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