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Even if you don’t care about cooking, this article hits two themes that repeatedly pop up on HN: 1. how people first acquire and cultivate skills, and the less
by majos 7y ago
Even if you don’t care about cooking, this article hits two themes that repeatedly pop up on HN:
1. how people first acquire and cultivate skills, and the less-clear-than-you-might-think role of “seriousness” in doing so, and
2. the stories of people who enjoy a confluence of interest, skill, resources, and what looks like a fair amount of luck, and (spoiler alert) still don’t achieve neat narrative-friendly success. I’m thinking of those comments that go “yeah, but we don’t get to see all the stories of people who did thing x and failed” (though in the end this story is less about failure and more about eventually deciding other things were more interesting).
- pnathan 7y agoA lot of the narrative structure reminded me of child musician almost-prodigies. People who are feted, but sigh, and in the mid & late teens, move on to other things. The obsessiveness of the skill acquisition makes me link late childhood with hyper-ability to acquire skills. Anyway, just musings. Be interesting to see a development psychologist weigh in here on the variety of normal childhood progressions.