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Eric on Big Think: Genius Is Not about Excelling at Something—It’s about Doing Things Differently

We want our surgeons to be excellent. We wants our classical music performers to be excellent. But do we really want excellence everywhere? This is the provocative line of thought economist and mathematician Eric Weinstein is currently chasing. We’ve figured out how to reliably teach excellence, which is useful — but there is a trade-off. […]