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How Can Anyone Become an Expert at Anything

at 15:10

From the episode: Why We Get Things Wrong, Predicting the Actions of Others and Buying Daffodils with David Dunning

Answer

According to Adam and David, only by realizing that you are not good at something will you be able to ask question and improve, in order to get better. It's the people who have no awareness of how poorly they are performing are the people who will not improve.

You become the master of something the day you realize that you have to be a life-long student of it.

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