summary:

• when you are so good with A, it’s very easy for you to use them as your main arsenal and neglect B, C, D. that why sometimes it make you realized it in a hard way that your B, C, D suck and u can’t tackle harder problem the same way you do.
• plateau
• schema
  my takes:
• the thumbnail makes me who watched something like this looks very self serving lol
• one can be deep thinker in one field and not in another field
  • thats why i want us to find ways to generalize them
• that rapid progression at the beginning can also came from compositionality: how someone generalize their experiences of doing A and B with C.
  • in ‘deep thinker’ case: learn how to think deep in A area can reshape how you tackle other areas tho.
  • and ppl usually don’t even know why other struggle with something they already familar with (learnt things with similar schema) beforehand.
    reminds me of
• so that’s why many smart ppl’s advice in other fields sounds weird - related to we_cant_trust_all_expert_tips
• some subjects in school that i do it well but don’t like how it taugh because it abandon to teach where it belong and it’s underlying mechanism
• nick milo’s leading questions: their deep thinking leading questions are very similar
• curse of knowledge
• side_effects_from_git_gud
  note
• i should make a note side_effects_from_git_gud

created on: Tue Jun 23 2026