The benefits to increased match quality . . . outweigh the greater loss in skills.” Learning stuff was less important than learning about oneself. Ex… - David Epstein

Learning stuff was less important than learning about oneself. Exploration is not just a whimsical luxury of education; it is a central benefit.

Desirable difficulties like testing and spacing make knowledge stick. It becomes durable. Desirable difficulties like making connections and interleaving make knowledge flexible, useful for problems that never appeared in training. All slow down learning and make performance suffer, in the short term.

In a wicked world, relying upon experience from a single domain is not only limiting, it can be disastrous.

The happiest people aren't the freest, they're the most constrained. Decades of psychology show that people who focus only on what they can control report higher happiness and lower stress. Don't just plan what to add in, decide what to limit.