Maybe this is too nitpicky, but “the most impactful years of your life will be 100x more impactful than the average” is necessarily false, because your career is so short that those years will increase the average. For example, if you have a 50-year career and all of your impact happens during a period of two years, your average yearly impact is 2/50=1/25 times as high as your impact during those two years. However, “the most impactful years of your life will be 100x more impactful than the median” could be true.
The number could easily be infinity; I have no problem imagining that most people have zero positive impact for more than half the years of their careers (even the ones that end up having some positive impact overall)
Good post!
Maybe this is too nitpicky, but “the most impactful years of your life will be 100x more impactful than the average” is necessarily false, because your career is so short that those years will increase the average. For example, if you have a 50-year career and all of your impact happens during a period of two years, your average yearly impact is 2/50=1/25 times as high as your impact during those two years. However, “the most impactful years of your life will be 100x more impactful than the median” could be true.
Good catch, fixed it.
100x is obviously a figure of speech. I’d love to see someone do some research into this and publish the actual numbers
The number could easily be infinity; I have no problem imagining that most people have zero positive impact for more than half the years of their careers (even the ones that end up having some positive impact overall)