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When comparing many things in life the difference between average and best is say 30% but some people are 50 times more effective than others.
“When comparing many things in life the difference between average and best is say 30% but some people are 50 times more effective than others.”
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“When comparing many things in life the difference between average and best is say 30% but some people are 50 times more effective than others.”
“Fundamental to real expertise is 1: whether the informational structure of the environment is sufficiently regular that it's possible to make good predictions and 2: does it allow high quality feedback and therefore error-correction.”
“Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don't care about the NHS. And the public has kind of cottoned on to that.”
“MPs are so cowed by the institutions and the scale of official failure that they generally just muddle along tinkering and hope to stay a step ahead of the media.”
“In many aspects of government, as in the tech world and investing, brains and temperament smash experience and seniority out of the park.”
“The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius and Archimedes on ellipses would be used centuries later by Kepler for his theory of planetary motion.”
“Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.”
“You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.”
“Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.”
“People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.”
“I just want to be treated like an average guy.”
“Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.”