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Nobody *wants* to look foolish or play to weaknesses. But a key difference between critics and doers appears to be that critics want to look good playing to strengths, while doers tolerate looking foolish in service of leveraging unexpected opportunities/unfair advantages.
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Ah, #mediocrity slouches in again. This choice is acknowledgment of the fact that environmental leverage generally beats personal exceptionalism, since most of us, by definition, are not particularly exceptional.
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This might be the strongest argument for what was saying about IQ being BS. Some people inherently have broadly diminished concern about their foolishness and that might be good for population. This sort of explains why I'm not very good at working on physical systems.