99% of the questions people ask in their 20s and early 30s are roughly the same seemingly “important” ones everybody has always asked at those ages. And 99% come up with roughly the same answers ranging from pretty dumb to reasonably smart regardless of effort.
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Like everybody else, I was asking 1 and 3, and got nowhere interesting. I didn’t do much worse or better than others on those (important) Qs. What I did right was get bored enough with 1 and 3 to accept lazy answers and move on. Everything interesting in my life came out of Q2.
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I’m sure others in their 40s have similar examples. My point is 25-40 is your most valuable, imaginative, intelligent and bold time of life, where your powers are at their peak, your life constraints are at their weakest, and your energy at its most boundless.
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Don’t waste this period asking age-old questions everybody has been spending 99% of their youth asking through all history. Triage them, get to good enough, and find *new* questions that *few* people are asking. The more average you are, the more crucial this hack.
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Exceptional geniuses might find unexpectedly high chunks of new marginal value in age-old actively-worked questions (age-old but abandoned/rarely asked questions are different, almost as good as new, but rarely as easy). You, statistically likely to be a mediocrity like me, won’t
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And never let seeming triviality or unimportance stop you from investing demented amounts of energy into the answers. Even if everybody thinks you’re crazy. Novelty never wears its significance and hidden value on the cover.
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And that’s why I have an interesting life and career based on 2 and most people don’t. Because they, like you, conclude it’s a 3.33s question.
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I absolutely agree w/ this analysis. But a big problem is that it’s hard to believe that the other questions are not worth spending time on, given they’re all everyone talks about. “Do I REALLY know better than everyone else what’s worth thinking about?”
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I didn’t understand what you were talking about in this thread until getting to this example — but having this example is very helpful!
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lol Damn. Feeling so read. 2 graduate degrees and 3 careers later...
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