A good way to go wrong in a complex system is “focus on the basics” There are no basics. There’s only intertwingled, entangled weirdness. Of those who focus on basics, a few get lucky, succeed, get religion, and start sermonizing. You don’t hear sage advice from the failures.
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The reward for opposite of “focus on basics” is something like “sparring with weirdness”. Median outcome there is basic survival and perhaps an interesting life. You learn nothing that is simple enough to preach to an enthralled audience willfully unaware of survivorship bias.
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“Basics —> success” people are exhausting. They turn an aggressively stupid typical mind fallacy into a typical life conclusion. Their primary motive, if it isn’t a tedious grift of some sort, is to protect their own psyches by finding a way to feel superior and deserving.
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agree wholeheartedly with these conclusions (i think), but feel you're saying it backwards. 'sparring with weirdness' -> 'success', or 'follow your dreams'. this has all the survivorship bias/preachy stuff. 'basics' -> 'survive'/'satisfaction'. assimilate into the medicore borg
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No I think I have it right. Sparring with weirdness people are almost never, in my experience, “successes” in any obvious big way.
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