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Casualties of Perfection
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- Author: [[Morgan Housel]]
- Full Title: Casualties of Perfection
- Category: #articles
- URL: http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/inefficient/
Highlights
- Not maximizing your potential is actually the sweet spot in a world where perfecting one skill compromises another.
- Psychologist Amos Tversky once said βthe secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.β
- But Tverskyβs point is that if your job is to be creative and think through a tough problem, then time spent wandering around a park or aimlessly lounging on a couch might be your most valuable hours. A little inefficiency is wonderful.
- Nassim Taleb says, βMy only measure of success is how much time you have to kill.β More than a measure of success, I think itβs a key ingredient. The most efficient calendar in the world β one where every minute is packed with productivity β comes at the expense of curious wandering and uninterrupted thinking, which eventually become the biggest contributors of success.
- Just like evolution, the key is realizing that the more perfect you try to become the more vulnerable you generally are.
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