dougclow comments on What should normal people do? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dougclow 25 October 2013 05:48:32PM 6 points [-]

Play to your strengths; do what you're best at. You don't have to be best in the world at it for it to be valuable.

Good things about this advice are (a) it has a fairly-sound theory behind it (Comparative advantage), and (b) it applies whether or not you're smart, normal or dumb, so you don't get in to socially-destructive comparisons of intelligence.