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Patrick's avatar

Great read. Throughout the article I kept thinking about the value of resilience - one can achieve anything they put their mind to with it.

I'm curious what your thoughts are on "naturally" smart people and whether you believe those even exist or if it's just a cycle of confidence leading to better skill acquisition? Thanks again

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Kris Abdelmessih's avatar

yes of course they exist just as Lebron James exists for athleticism. there are certain domains where you are probably capped by not having enough horsepower just as you can practice all you want you're not getting to the NBA but i don't think this a material concern for being successful, happy, thriving, etc. Hell there might even be a sweet spot for smart where too much of it is maladaptive for anything but being a chess GM

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Leonidas Tam, PhD's avatar

The power of mathematics is that it's great practice for developing learning representations (and why it's unreasonably effective in physics). Yoshua Bengio's article on Learning Representations is a clear distillation of principles, for children or adults: https://amicusai.substack.com/p/learning-and-leverage

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Will G.'s avatar

Love this!

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Tom's avatar

excellent read; very smooth !

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Will G.'s avatar

would love your thoughts on some of my stuff. follow me back, I could DM you?

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