I've thought about this too. It reminds me of the blog post Do the Real Thing^[1]. Too many people do everything except the goal they actually want to accomplish. While getting rich is not "easy" per se, it's an easy goal to set that won't get you any criticism from most people. Often times the loftier goals are not as clean cut and direct, and require serious amounts of introspection.
One of the premises of the article is that cross-training does not bear fruit, but I recall claims that, for example, piano players picking up guitar had a much easier experience, than a non-musician picking up guitar.
Perhaps reality is more nuanced than that? Like, there may be tasks that appear very similar, but they are actually not cross-trainable?
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I've thought about this too. It reminds me of the blog post Do the Real Thing^[1]. Too many people do everything except the goal they actually want to accomplish. While getting rich is not "easy" per se, it's an easy goal to set that won't get you any criticism from most people. Often times the loftier goals are not as clean cut and direct, and require serious amounts of introspection.
[1]: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2020/05/04/do-the-real-thin...
One of the premises of the article is that cross-training does not bear fruit, but I recall claims that, for example, piano players picking up guitar had a much easier experience, than a non-musician picking up guitar.
Perhaps reality is more nuanced than that? Like, there may be tasks that appear very similar, but they are actually not cross-trainable?