from Intellectual Productivity of Engineers: A Summary of Reactions Part 2
The phenomenon of people shouting “genius” without seeing the “effort behind the effort.”
otherssuccess の背後の trial and error を見ないから天才と感じるが、誰もが多くの失敗を経て成功する。
https://twitter.com/uchan_nos/status/1097300669680111617
- There’s this story about an engineer’s intellectual production techniques.” Sometimes you look at someone else’s activity and think, “I wonder how he came up with this way of doing things, … maybe he’s a genius,” but you feel that way because you don’t see the huge amount of trial and error he’s doing behind the scenes.” On Twitter, it really feels like this is a remarkable phenomenon.
- What I wanted to convey through this story is that there is no need to be depressed and say, “He’s a genius, but I’m a useless guy who can’t do anything…” Instead, we should do a lot of trial and error, discover 10,000 different ways that don’t work, and finally find one good way to do it. He can write about his last discovery on Twitter, and voila, a genius is born.
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