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Comment by yanilkr

I would classify this as "Self help" advice based on personal experience. Over all its very good advice to learn to collaborate with others.

There are so many persuasion filters here "Partner at Ycombinator", "Co-Founder", "Director", "Apple", "High Achiever writer in general". With this many strong credentials, it would be very very difficult to critically read such advice and then think of alternative ideas.

"If you don’t retrain your model based on input from the crowd, you’ll never converge on truth." This is true for machines.

Other high achievers believe in the alternate version.

"Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men." Edwin Louis Cole

"truth is my goal. Controversy is my gym. I'll do a hundred reps of controversy for a 6 pack of truth" - Kanye west.

"Your life goal should be not to win any particular game, rather to win the sum of all games." This metaphor of everything is a game really really works well for certain people. I personally witnessed it.

It would be a sad life if you turn everything you do in life as a game where you need to compete with others to win and never question the nature of the game itself.

"Do what you love" is an over all long term approach that sustains your energy and focus for long term.

Most ideas of high achievers are very contradictory, in general its a good idea to listen to so many of them and pick something that meets your style.

parent yanilkr 8 years ago

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