alt Hacker NewsI'm telling you for me being a better more productive engineer had a lot to do with making better choices. I'm not selling you a book or inviting you to my TED Talk.
Not wasting a tremendous amount of time automating something is indeed an important skill to learn (because automating things is way more fun for some people than actually doing the thing).
Coaching junior employees to neither ask me for help the instant they're confused nor spin their wheels for two weeks without asking for help is a COMMON thread.
>High achievers, across the board, consistently demonstrate putting more effort in.
Growing up, in school, I did almost nothing and was consistently at the top of my class until I got older and things started requiring effort for me. The early years of high achievement had literally nothing to do with effort.
These days being a high achiever has a lot to do with managing the perception of your work.
> Growing up, in school, I did almost nothing and was consistently at the top of my class
It is clearly widely and indisputably demonstrated that many high achieving children in this situation are failures as adults because they never learn to put effort in.
Terrace tao is on the record writing about his experiences with it, and how it was only his failure in initial college admission shocked him into achieving what he has.
Ie. The point you are making is widely, clearly documented as the naive experience of someone who has not had to achieve at a high level.
> Coaching junior employees to neither ask me for help the instant they're confused nor spin their wheels for two weeks without asking for help is a COMMON thread.
You're a manager. I am sure you have a predictable set of responsibilities, constraints and want a “high performing” team.
Hows that working out for you?
Most advice I, personally, have seen, like this, comes from managers who want to have high performing teams, not ones that have high performing teams.
Its straight out of Be A Manager playbooks.
Whatever, you do you; but, I will emphasise that you are fooling yourself if you believe your experience is universal.
Most very successful people puts lots of effort in.
I… don't know what else to say. If you don't believe that, you are simply, objectively rallying against an extremely large well documented body of knowledge and work on the topic.