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> Reverse engineer the paths of famous people I agree; I work as a coach and have to say that this path is fraught with peril. The delta from one psychology to
by themodelplumber 8y ago
> Reverse engineer the paths of famous people
I agree; I work as a coach and have to say that this path is fraught with peril. The delta from one psychology to the next is significant enough that this activity could easily cause someone to feel exhaustion before they even get started putting the learned path into place.
IMO much better advice is to "reverse engineer" your own past and treat that as a guide, asking yourself when you were happiest, most productive, etc. This can far more easily result in "scalable" information.
- ryandrake 8y agoIt’s also fraught with Survivorship Bias. Look at successes and try to find a common thing they do or attribute they have, ignoring the failures that also did that thing or had that attribute. It’s basically the plot of every business self help book out there.
- deehouie 8y agoThis comment should move to the top. You see the success stories because they have succeeded. You never hear the failures. And they are everywhere.