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Words matter. Artists love to trot out the tired line, “My work speaks for itself,” but the truth is, our work doesn’t speak for itself. Human beings want to know where things came from, how they were made, and who made them. The stories you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel and what they understand about your work, and how people feel and what they understand about your work effects how they value it.
Show Your Work!
Austin Kleon
The problem with competitive struggles, however, is that they’re enormously wasteful. The redwoods are so much taller than they need to be. If only they could coordinate not to all grow so tall—if they could institute a “height cap” at 100 feet (30 meters), say—the whole species would be better off. All the energy that they currently waste racing upward, they could instead invest in other pursuits, like making more pinecones in order to spread further, perhaps into new territory. Competition, in this case, holds the entire species back.
The Elephant in the Brain
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Isn’t there a danger in creating Tim Tebows? That is, isn’t it likely that we will create strong attractors for movement solutions that work early in the learning process but will not be successful later on (and will be more difficult to change at that point)? I am not worried about this happening if we continue to move practice up the representativeness continuum and use the 70% rule as a guide. Attractors for ineffective movement solutions do not arise because we fail to step in to prescriptively correct them. Instead, they arise because we spend too much time practicing in conditions of low representativeness with a very high-performance success rate.
Learning to Be an “Ecological” Coach
Rob Gray
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