Ah, this was just supposed to establish the general point that intelligence tends to dominate performance and that performance levels of relatively quickly. Almost no one who got into a profession actually tried learning things at close to their maximum speed.
I then think if you do that, you can get that number to something more like 6 months until you are comparably good (you will lack some breath, but will be similarly good as professionals at any narrower skill you were trying to learn), and 12 months until you have a shot at being in the top performers of the domain.
Ah, this was just supposed to establish the general point that intelligence tends to dominate performance and that performance levels of relatively quickly. Almost no one who got into a profession actually tried learning things at close to their maximum speed.
I then think if you do that, you can get that number to something more like 6 months until you are comparably good (you will lack some breath, but will be similarly good as professionals at any narrower skill you were trying to learn), and 12 months until you have a shot at being in the top performers of the domain.