Mecha-Man
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First let's define what I mean by inertia. The closest thing the average person would call this is "destiny". Personally though, I don't like that term because it has an supernatural and inevitability connotation towards it. So imagine destiny, without the supernatural component.
Most doctors you see? They're not doctors because they're more intelligent, more disciplined, or even because of some higher aptitudes. They're doctors because their parents were doctors (or at the very least, someone in their immediate family worked for health care), and their parent's parents were doctors. Same for lawyers, mechanics, and every other profession. Not everyone, but the overwhelming majority. This is a big deal because these people know the ins and outs, are given connections immediately, know common pitfalls, etc. And more importantly, their knowledge is implicit - meaning, to them they think it's so obvious it's not worth sharing, but it's not actually obvious to an outside observer.
This is important to recognize for many reasons. The first immediate consequence of this is that most professionals are not really professionals. And you could, in theory if you had enough guidance and a favorable environment, achieve their level of expertise in 1 to 2 years (not to acquire their credentials, simply to do their job, credentials have bureaucratic bottlenecks and processes that stall time-frames). So don't expect profound competency from average "professional", even if they have all their credentials.
The long term consequences of this are more entrenched, and more subtle:
Very few people actually know how to achieve success from square 1.
Most people need a favorable environment, lots of support, guidance with very high fidelity. Most people lack the capability to change their careers, they lack the capability to recover from very serious setbacks. Why is that a problem? Because it means most advice given is situational, requires too many prerequisites to be present that you likely don't have, and relies too much on luck and goodwill from others. Because you now have to sort through a lot of half truths, deception, and ignorance disguised as wisdom.
This makes taking control of your life and changing the inertia that's guiding them thanks to their ancestral generations very difficult, because the difference between how successful you are can simply be because of minor early assumptions you thought were harmless at the time. But it's not impossible. And my account will be centered around this:
- Filtering signal from noise
- Pruning false assumptions
- Rejecting biased framing
and ultimately - Figuring out what's true and what's not so that we can advance without relying on others, luck, or having the best environment possible.
Thanks for having me.
Most doctors you see? They're not doctors because they're more intelligent, more disciplined, or even because of some higher aptitudes. They're doctors because their parents were doctors (or at the very least, someone in their immediate family worked for health care), and their parent's parents were doctors. Same for lawyers, mechanics, and every other profession. Not everyone, but the overwhelming majority. This is a big deal because these people know the ins and outs, are given connections immediately, know common pitfalls, etc. And more importantly, their knowledge is implicit - meaning, to them they think it's so obvious it's not worth sharing, but it's not actually obvious to an outside observer.
This is important to recognize for many reasons. The first immediate consequence of this is that most professionals are not really professionals. And you could, in theory if you had enough guidance and a favorable environment, achieve their level of expertise in 1 to 2 years (not to acquire their credentials, simply to do their job, credentials have bureaucratic bottlenecks and processes that stall time-frames). So don't expect profound competency from average "professional", even if they have all their credentials.
The long term consequences of this are more entrenched, and more subtle:
Very few people actually know how to achieve success from square 1.
Most people need a favorable environment, lots of support, guidance with very high fidelity. Most people lack the capability to change their careers, they lack the capability to recover from very serious setbacks. Why is that a problem? Because it means most advice given is situational, requires too many prerequisites to be present that you likely don't have, and relies too much on luck and goodwill from others. Because you now have to sort through a lot of half truths, deception, and ignorance disguised as wisdom.
This makes taking control of your life and changing the inertia that's guiding them thanks to their ancestral generations very difficult, because the difference between how successful you are can simply be because of minor early assumptions you thought were harmless at the time. But it's not impossible. And my account will be centered around this:
- Filtering signal from noise
- Pruning false assumptions
- Rejecting biased framing
and ultimately - Figuring out what's true and what's not so that we can advance without relying on others, luck, or having the best environment possible.
Thanks for having me.
