Humans are really bad at grokking log scales, i.e., “there’s levels to this shit”
Among my friends I’m the insanely fit cyclist guy; on my weekly group ride I’m one of the slowest. The fastest guy there couldn’t sniff a pro contract
This applies to literally everything
i think one of the best pieces of career advice for young people is to try and speedrun bungling something in front of as many important people that you deeply respect as possible before the age of 30