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Did this realization make you do a lesser number of awesome things on average than before you had it? More? About the same? I'm just wondering if there could be
by Jach 15y ago
Did this realization make you do a lesser number of awesome things on average than before you had it? More? About the same? I'm just wondering if there could be a basilisk effect for someone who previously thought there were unlimited awesome points available to them, read your hypothetical, started believing in finite awesome points and hoarding them, and stopped doing as many awesome things as they used to.
- patio11 15y agoWe're getting a little into the realm of the absurd when asking for auditable metrics about expenditure of anything called awesome points, but my subjective experience is that my life, my output, and my impact on the world went way up when I spent less effort on one or two big timesucks that just profoundly did not matter.
- droithomme 15y agoWhat was the second one? I know you quit your job to focus on your startups. Was there a previous time you left school as well or was it something else? (I agree with all you are saying in this thread, BTW - I dropped out of high school myself when I realized both that I could, and it was wasting precious hours I could use doing more useful things. I won't say I advocate this for everyone, but it's definitely the right choice for many kids who are learning on their own already and are just spinning their wheels with the sorts of shallow coverage of topics taught by non-experts that secondary schools offer.)