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That sounds like it would prevent deep work and make it difficult to get good at anything.

• weavie 8y ago
  She's 8.
• Loughla 8y ago
  What child under 15 needs to worry about getting good at anything instead of trying as much as they can to see where their interests are?
  • solveit 8y ago
    A good portion of HN is people that got good at things before they were 15 and now lead comfortable lives thanks to that. Early specialization has its merits, unfortunately,
  • Chris_Jay 8y ago
    I think getting good at getting good at things is also good to do at that age. I'm in favour of encouraging kids to study broadly, but I've also ready very compelling accounts of where encouraging a kid's narrow interests got the child to learn ancillary things much more quickly (though TBF, that child was deeply on the spectrum and perhaps not a typical example)