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Here's an easy way to figure out where earnestness matters vs where it's just bullshitting all the way down. Are there any prodigies? Mathematics: yes. Music: y
by ummwhat 6y ago
Here's an easy way to figure out where earnestness matters vs where it's just bullshitting all the way down. Are there any prodigies? Mathematics: yes. Music: yes. Real estate: no.
- iWorshipFAANGS 6y agoHow would you know there are no prodigies in Real estate? There are certainly children who display an early knack in resource allocation. How would a child practice real estate anyway? There are no astronaut prodigies either, as far as I know.
- ummwhat 6y agoThere are no child prodigy realtors because very few people are willing to take a child seriously enough to buy a house off them. The learnable part of realty (as measured on the realtors exam) is far outweighed by the bullshit part of looking the part. Astronauts per se no. But there are pilots as young as 16.
- puranjay 6y agoYou'll find earnestness in fields where the "system" is known, transparent, learnable, and verifiable. Musicians and mathematicians can't bullshit because other practitioners will catch on easily. In real estates and startups, the "system" is usually esoteric, highly network dependent, and non-verifiable. You can't tell if a startup founder is truly a genius, or just lucked out (or had access to his dad's millions as seed funding). Any field where knowledge remains locked away in closed networks essentially becomes the domain of bullshit. Open knowledge breeds earnestness. If everyone knew exactly how every real estate deal in the world was structured, there would be no bullshit real estate investors.
- anubidiocane 6y ago> Real estate: no What about Graham Stephan?