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Re:Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier? by tommaho on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:38PM (#20921596)
Awareness that periods of high performance are not 'free'. How to leverage that balance.

Curiosity and aptitude for math. I've found this about 25 years too late for it to make much of a difference.

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Re:Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier? by patrickxie on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:01PM (#20921834)
Can you elaborate more on the first sentence?
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Re:Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier? by tommaho on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @07:48AM (#20927166)
Sure, an understanding that I have a closed, fixed pool of resources to balance between efforts.

My personal model is mind / body / spirit (or mental / physical / artistic). I've learned through failure that high and exceptional performance in one direction draws fuel from the other(s).

If my performance is out of balance for a long enough period, I seem to accrue a kind of debt repaid over periods of burnout and depression.

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