The Dark Side of Resilience

Re:The Dark Side of Resilience by 5trokerac3 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @08:58AM (#15081120)

The older I get, the more I realize that in most cases it's best to be in the middle of the bell curve.

That's not to say there's anything wrong with having the single-minded focus required to be one of the best in the world at something. But you have to accept that you'll miss out on other enjoyable aspects of life while you pursue your goal, and know if and when you should move on from it, or you'll wind up very unhappy.

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Re:The Dark Side of Resilience by marksellers on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:29AM (#15081780)

Each standard deviation of excellence earned along any dimension extracts a greater toll on all others. It's good to have a specialty along one or two axes, especially given that you may not care much to be good at the grand lot of the other available skills you could attain. But to truly excell (3 or more sigma, let's say) is time-expensive.

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Re:The Dark Side of Resilience by dredmorbius on Thursday August 24, 2017 @04:07PM (#15093594)

Gambler's fallacy.

Far more likely to just be regression to the mean.

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