Funny, I just started watching Feynman's lectures. Good point about revisiting prior work. I still learn things from rereading Munger's speeches or Buffett's early letters. A body of work that deep is almost endless if you keep going back to it and thinking it through with your current state of knowledge/expertise.
Absolutely! This is something I've learned over time, revisiting some of my faves. If they're rich enough, you can get more and more out of them each time, especially if you've changed and evolved in between revisits. 💚 🥃
This was a great article, captures a lot on mentors, learning and how to push things. I particularly loved the graph on Mentor's skill, vs familiarity vs your skill. Knowing the idea doesn't mean you can do.(but knowing is much better than not knowing, its a good start). Thanks
I see this phenomenon so often (with Buffett but also younger 'mentors' like Ben Thompson and others) and I so rarely saw people explain why it happened that I felt compelled to write about it. Hopefully it's a useful idea, not only to understand what is going on, but to nudge people on what to do to keep progressing, and to get to the other side where they start admiring their early mentors again.
Funny, I just started watching Feynman's lectures. Good point about revisiting prior work. I still learn things from rereading Munger's speeches or Buffett's early letters. A body of work that deep is almost endless if you keep going back to it and thinking it through with your current state of knowledge/expertise.
Absolutely! This is something I've learned over time, revisiting some of my faves. If they're rich enough, you can get more and more out of them each time, especially if you've changed and evolved in between revisits. 💚 🥃
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This was a great article, captures a lot on mentors, learning and how to push things. I particularly loved the graph on Mentor's skill, vs familiarity vs your skill. Knowing the idea doesn't mean you can do.(but knowing is much better than not knowing, its a good start). Thanks
Thank you, AT, glad you liked it!
I see this phenomenon so often (with Buffett but also younger 'mentors' like Ben Thompson and others) and I so rarely saw people explain why it happened that I felt compelled to write about it. Hopefully it's a useful idea, not only to understand what is going on, but to nudge people on what to do to keep progressing, and to get to the other side where they start admiring their early mentors again.
Cheers! 💚 🥃