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once you learn to shoot your shot just right you basically inhabit a completely different reality than 99.9% of people and it just looks like the world magically opens doors for you https://t.co/XlM1bsUR7x
school doesn’t teach you this, imo significantly because people who know how to do it rarely become schoolteachers and/or administrators, or stay there long. school in fact is a system of teaching everybody to shoot their shots in the most boring, scripted way possible
great individual teachers often impart a little bit of the right energy to their students in stolen moments between struggling to keep up with curriculum, and those moments of magic become what the students remember for life. I’m always wondering what if all of education had that
a lot of “shooting your shot just right” is about doing an “unreasonable” amount of research and prep. “unreasonable” here being simply a benchmark via broad social consensus of people who are mediocre at shooting their shots
here’s a guy who shot his shot perfectly. It looks insane. It got him exactly what he wanted https://t.co/10gCX7I7YE
@visakanv To be explicit here since some people benefit from explicitness: 15 minutes of considered thought is more than the market standard by a lot, and some unreasonably effective people will e.g. read a substantial portion of someone’s lifetime body of work.
@visakanv Personally I think that one would not do that until an indication of mutual interest but to each their own. Also, saying explicitly: if you genuinely read ~everything from someone there are a lot better ways to phrase interest than “I read everything you ever wrote!”
@visakanv Number of readers in the world below our estimate of them; number of people capable of understanding/reflecting/vibing/recommending/expanding even lower than number that will organize themselves to actually do the reading.
@TAmazinrai67048 sure thing! https://t.co/7HO6StiCh4