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N=1 theorizing is trickiest when that 1 is yourself. A vague heuristic I hold is to treat your experiences as relatively typical when they feel special, and relatively atypical when they feel very natural. Counterintuitively, feeling ‘natural’ is an unnatural state.
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IOW normal feels unique and unique feels normal? When applied to capabilities this explains the blindness people have on the innate component of their strengths. I suppose you are saying it applies to external situation as well.
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