If you want to do well in school and you’re passionate abou… - Eric Barker

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If you want to do well in school and you’re passionate about math, you need to stop working on it to make sure you get an A in history too. This generalist approach doesn’t lead to expertise. Yet eventually we almost all go on to careers in which one skill is highly rewarded and other skills aren’t that important. Ironically,

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Nobody wants to be the next karōshi statistic.

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If you want to do well in school and you’re passionate about math, you need to stop working on it to make sure you get an A in history too. This gene… - Eric Barker

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