Re:Talent Is Largely a Myth
by fn-mote on Sunday February 07, 2021 @09:49PM
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I work with a lot of very talented people.
I frequently watch some of them do a really poor job because they are unable to get over the hangup that "more talented person Y" would be able to do it much better, design it more clearly from the start, etc.
When I look at "more talented person Y", sure, they are more talented, but their work is good because of other behaviors (e.g., a breadth of experimentation before locking in one approach) that have nothing to do with their great intuition/vision about the structure of the result.
Now my advice is "don't look around"...
Preoccupation with talent is a trap, for the more and less talented.
I frequently watch some of them do a really poor job because they are unable to get over the hangup that "more talented person Y" would be able to do it much better, design it more clearly from the start, etc.
When I look at "more talented person Y", sure, they are more talented, but their work is good because of other behaviors (e.g., a breadth of experimentation before locking in one approach) that have nothing to do with their great intuition/vision about the structure of the result.
Now my advice is "don't look around"...
Preoccupation with talent is a trap, for the more and less talented.