There’s a difference between doing things that are somewhat correlated with things you want (or even doing things that you expect to lead to things you want), and trying really unusually hard to actually get what you want.
To me there’s some resonance between this and the CFAR technique of “turbocharging” (see CFAR Handbook pages 192-200, especially page 196). One quote from there:
Always be wary of advice that you should do activity A “because it will make you good at activity B.” Sometimes this is actually true, but more often than not, it’s wasted motion.
Thanks for the tip! I haven’t read it but having taken a quick look now at the maths education example (particularly enticing given my background), I agree that this seems closely related. Many of the ideas I have around things like this were partially formed in response to examples extremely like that one.
To me there’s some resonance between this and the CFAR technique of “turbocharging” (see CFAR Handbook pages 192-200, especially page 196). One quote from there:
Thanks for the tip! I haven’t read it but having taken a quick look now at the maths education example (particularly enticing given my background), I agree that this seems closely related. Many of the ideas I have around things like this were partially formed in response to examples extremely like that one.