If you discover that you are a genius at the piano on the same day you discover that you have a week to live, should you spend the week learning to play? No because even a natural genius can’t get a good return in a week.
Feels like this reasoning pattern could be generalized
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How would you discover you're a genius at the piano at such a specific moment? In general seems to be something one discovers over the course of years.
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“happy” is a return model, I’m claiming you won’t get good enough at piano to get happy in a week. This is a proposition about the nature of learning curves, not mortality as such.
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But playing the piano could make you happy anyway, without needing to be good? Odd reasoning to claim you should only do things you'll be good at and quickly to be happy!
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