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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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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