2025-08-01
26 分钟How do you summarize the work that you do and why you do it?
And who are you really doing it for?
I am obsessed with correcting what I view as mistranslations of scientific research about human development.
And so that is the core of my work.
And I think I'm doing it for everyone who is curious,
but either doesn't have a scientific background or doesn't have that particular scientific background.
Curious.
but interested in self-improvement,
but doesn't either have the time or the means to go sifting through this evidence themselves.
And what is the sort of realms of self-improvement that you have focused on thus far in your career?
Well, earlier on, I was focused in physical skill acquisition, like in athletics.
But increasingly, I've moved into career and personal development generally,
and looking at that with a very, very... kind of long lens, right?
So one of the most important things to me,
one of the most important messages that I've been working on the last few years is the fact that sometimes optimizing for short-term development will undermine your long-term development.
So let's say if we're thinking about sports or music or something like that,
the obvious thing to do is to get a head start in whatever you're doing.
Pick something, stick with it, don't switch things because then you've lost time.
Focus very narrowly and do as much of it as you possibly can to the exclusion of other things.
That's such an obvious way, right?