Leveraging lag: engineers and salespeople
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Accelerating personal development with analogies between domains
Or maybe this doesn’t seem mysterious? People have different interests, choose different careers, and so learn different skills. Some people learn how to fix printers, and others learn how to make friends. There’s reasons to think there’s something different at work. Something deeper, more difficult, more interesting and important. Trouble in getting along with people can cause software engineers (for example) great suffering. It can limit their career advancement. It can make sustaining romantic relationships impossible. These problems may become the most important thing in their lives.…
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