People with very high expectations have very low resilience
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People with very high expectations have very low resilience
His downfall was his expectations of his own initial abilities and how they would react to new knowledge and reading material. He might be smart, but not in this field.
Peter Hollins • The Science of Self-Learning: How to Teach Yourself Anything, Learn More in Less Time, and Direct Your Own Education (Learning how to Learn Book 1)
A lesson some learn too late is that being good at school and good at life are two different things
One has rigid structure and optimizes for folks who can follow directions well
The other is fluid with no instruction manuals. Requires raw courage and persistence, not just IQ https://t.co/PNif3KKPtn
Grad school was where I first had the experience of maxing out my cognitive horsepower.
I was one of the dumbest EE majors. There was a very clear hierarchy. [Generalizing heavily] the EE majors weren’t as smart as the stat majors, who weren’t as smart as the math majors.
There was no value ... See more
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