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I remember an article where someone said they were doing this in the Army, writing / saying "this guy has the potential to be great" or "this guy will wash out

I remember an article where someone said they were doing this in the Army, writing / saying "this guy has the potential to be great" or "this guy will wash out quickly", and discovering 20 years later that their predictions had no relationship to reality. (Can't find that article anymore though.)

eldavido 9y ago
I think you're talking about this, which was cited in the book Grit: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3910317/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3910317/
mindcrime 9y ago
I believe that was a mention of something like that in Thinking, Fast and Slow.