shminux comments on Public Service Announcement Collection - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 June 2013 05:20PM

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Comment author: shminux 27 June 2013 06:27:46PM *  5 points [-]

if you have an area where you are great at (better than anyone you know or heard of), put most of your efforts there, regardless of the expected payout or other considerations. Don't wait too long, unused abilities deteriorate with age (yes, speaking from personal experience).

Comment author: madplatypus 27 June 2013 07:58:53PM 6 points [-]

First off, if you are better than anyone you've ever heard of at anything, you need to read more about your field. But as a perhaps more relevant question, how do you do that in a more general field? I've always felt very good at strategy, and have been able to pick up related games very quickly, but don't really care to be a professional chess/go/etc player. How does one,"Put most of their efforts" into something more general?

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 29 June 2013 06:01:46PM 2 points [-]

Shouldn't this depend on the area? What if I think I might be the best in the world at a particular video game?

Comment author: InquilineKea 05 July 2016 05:34:22PM *  0 points [-]

Stream it on YouTube/Twitch.

Comment author: somervta 01 July 2013 08:32:06AM 0 points [-]

If you genuinely think you are the best in the world at a particular videogame, there are probably competitions for it which you could win fairly reliably.