matt comments on Explicit and tacit rationality - Less Wrong
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For what it's worth, I'm a pretty successful entrepreneur and I'd say this more like:
(Your version scans better.)
I'm commenting mostly against a characterisation of this stuff being easy for successful entrepreneurs. If you try something entrepreneurial and find that it's hard, that's not very useful information and it doesn't mean that you're not one of the elect and should give up - it's bloody hard for many successful people, but you can keep working on your own systems until they work (if you try to just keep working I think you'll fail - go meta and work on both what's not working to make it work better and on what is working to get more of it).
Thanks! Yes, I agree that it's possible to get better at most of those things through deliberate effort, which includes system-building, and it's a good point that people shouldn't be dissuaded just 'cause it doesn't seem to come to them naturally.