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22Jul/100

On Personal Limitations II (Follow-Up)

As a follow-up to my first On Personal Limitations post (go and read that one first), I came across this article today on 43 Folders, which perfectly describes what I was explaining in the post.

http://www.43folders.com/2010/05/17/future-proofing-your-passion

In it, Merlin Mann writes: "By starting adult life with an autistically explicit 'goal' that’s never been tested against any kind of real-world experience or reality-in-context, we can paradoxically miss a thousand more useful, lucrative, or organic opportunities that just…what?…pop up. Often these are one-time chances to do amazing and even unique things—opportunities that many of us continue to reject out of hand because it’s 'not what we do'".

Exactly.

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