Gap between median and outlier payoffs for some activities has a huge range Making $: making a living vs making billions Operating vehicles: riding a bike vs piloting a spacecraft Others, range is small. Eating: diff between median meal vs best meal possible is small (for me)
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Hmm. Collection hobbies. The median stamp collecting kid collects some common stamp. The extreme outcome person collects a really rare stamp that might be the only example of its kind in the world. In general, rarity of payoff is the meta-KPI for many activities.
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"Leveling up" can be a kind of exceptional payoff. The distribution is normal at each level because the extremes either drop out or level up. Competitive levels often represent order of magnitude payoff increases.
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There was some academic article on the structure of elite performance that I can't find now, focusing on swimming improvements as you go up levels. Something about how when you level up the training mode qualitatively changes.
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Observation capabilities. Median person is naked eye or binoculars vs. even small telescope. Astounding difference in payoff, a large chunk of it due to Saturn's rings. Of course, not everybody appreciates it. Most of my near family owes Saturn ring views to me. Most are "meh."
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I feel like making a distinction between payoffs you can spend (like money, fame, power) that you must spend in some way over an extended period of time vs. those that you can only enjoy (like being in space or playing an instrument).
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Publishing a book.
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reading a book
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Any type of content creation - music, making movies and so on. Anyone can strum a guitar and hold a camera but the societal/cultural payoff of the outliers is many order of magniture higher. I'll also include academic writing in this genre.
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Hmm. The societal/cultural payoff is distinct (money etc), but the immediate payoff between being able to strum vs. being able to play at say hendrix level.. is that a satisfaction range of orders of magnitude?
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