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Expertise makes people weirder, not more alike

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Taking advice is a fraught activity. As you become more skilled in a field, the advice you need to advance becomes more specific to you, and as such harder to find. At some point, depending on the field, it somehow becomes unwise to take general advice at all, since taking advice will at best do nothing, or at worst, be a reversion to the mean. A great book is Writers at Work, where interviewers ask a set of esteemed writers about their particular experience and solicit advice about writing. The surface level reading is to take away the advice, especially if you’re a writer. One other reading, though, is to notice that the advice is very different from author to author, and sometimes even contradictory. Here’s one example on inspiration. Moravia needs “genuine” inspiration, saying that “one doesn’t go on” without it: INTERVIEWERS: Have there been times when characters have got out of hand? ALBERTO MORAVIA: Not in anything I’ve published. Whenever characters get out of control, it’s a s

Expertise makes people weirder, not more alike Expertise makes people weirder, not more alike 2022-01-07 Home Projects Blog Taking advice is a fraught activity. As you become more skilled in a field, the advice you need to advance becomes more specific to you, and as such harder to find. At some point, depending on the field, it somehow becomes unwise to take general advice at all, since taking advice will at best do nothing, or at worst, be a reversion to the mean. A great book is Writers at Work , where interviewers ask a set of esteemed writers about their particular experience and solicit

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