Gladwell also argues its’ a function of your environment in Outliers. For instance, you can never get a chance to be obsessed with computers if you’re never exposed to computers.
You can’t orient them at all, which you can put yourself in situations which gives you the opportunity to develop new obsessions, or cultivate particular ones over other ones. I think there is some lottery-elements here, but it’s at least under a bit of longterm control.
Isn’t “just the right kind of obsession” a natural ability? It’s not that you can orient your ‘obsessions’ at will...
Gladwell also argues its’ a function of your environment in Outliers. For instance, you can never get a chance to be obsessed with computers if you’re never exposed to computers.
You can’t orient them at all, which you can put yourself in situations which gives you the opportunity to develop new obsessions, or cultivate particular ones over other ones. I think there is some lottery-elements here, but it’s at least under a bit of longterm control.
Given your starting “obsessions”, how do you pick the good ones to invest time in?
And can you discover new ones? (Some methods for learning new subjects may work better than others.)