I kinda suspect you’ve developed an unconscious but accurate feeling for the sort of task a generalist can skill into in six months, and no longer ask people to tasks outside that set and so don’t get feedback from the resulting failures.
some specific tasks:
Write a native cross platform UI toolkit thats ergonomic to use from Rust
Become governor of california
Write a novel thats not cringe
And the ur example, win any contest where the other bastards get to prep for more than six months
Ok, illustrative example: it’s humanly possible to get good enough at free throws to make thousands of them consecutively, but NBA players, who have insane skill at the extremely nearby skill of basketball and who are plenty conscientious and motivated, don’t have the capacity to ever learn this skill, or don’t have the time to learn this skill, so they regularly miss free throws.
I kinda suspect you’ve developed an unconscious but accurate feeling for the sort of task a generalist can skill into in six months, and no longer ask people to tasks outside that set and so don’t get feedback from the resulting failures.
some specific tasks:
Write a native cross platform UI toolkit thats ergonomic to use from Rust
Become governor of california
Write a novel thats not cringe
And the ur example, win any contest where the other bastards get to prep for more than six months
Ok, illustrative example: it’s humanly possible to get good enough at free throws to make thousands of them consecutively, but NBA players, who have insane skill at the extremely nearby skill of basketball and who are plenty conscientious and motivated, don’t have the capacity to ever learn this skill, or don’t have the time to learn this skill, so they regularly miss free throws.