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> *“I think there's this idea that people have of going to Europe or whatever and finding yourself, and I think that's a load of shit. I don't think you can go find yourself in a nightclub in Budapest or anything like that. But something that I did realize is once you get out of your home environment, for me, getting out of Atlanta and going to... I didn't know anybody in Barcelona when I got there, that was my first stop. It kind of separates the parts of you that were a byproduct of your environment, where you fit in and the social hierarchy of where you are. And then the stuff that's left is what you actually like. So I don't think you find yourself when you're going in hostel-hopping, but you do get a lot better idea of what stuff you did was actually stuff you wanted to do or what stuff you value.”*
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In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.
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[](https://www.adithyan.io/blog/richard-sutton-ai-slogans/#8-work-by-orthogonal-dimensions-work-issue-by-issue)8. Work by orthogonal dimensions. Work issue by issue.
"Orthogonal dimensions" implies **independent aspects** of a problem. This slogan is advising researchers to tackle problems by breaking them down into separate, non-overlapping issues, and solving each one in turn. In practice, you identify different axes of complexity in your project and address them one at a time, holding others constant. This way, improvements in one area won't mess up another because you've separated concerns (just as orthogonal axes in a graph don't interfere with each other).
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