I’ve been having to do this a lot for Ribbonfarm’s Mediocratopia blog chain. Rao often confuses me and I have to step up my game to figure out where he’s coming from.
It’s basically a move of “What would have to be different for this to make sense?”
Confusion: “But if you’re going up in levels, stuff must be getting harder, so even though you’re mediocre in the next tier, shouldn’t you be loosing slack, which is antithetical to mediocrity?”
Resolution: “What if there’s weird discontinuous jumps to both skill and performance, and taking on a new frame/strategy/practice bumps you to the next level, without your effort going up proportionally?”
Reverse-Engineering a World View
I’ve been having to do this a lot for Ribbonfarm’s Mediocratopia blog chain. Rao often confuses me and I have to step up my game to figure out where he’s coming from.
It’s basically a move of “What would have to be different for this to make sense?”
Confusion: “But if you’re going up in levels, stuff must be getting harder, so even though you’re mediocre in the next tier, shouldn’t you be loosing slack, which is antithetical to mediocrity?”
Resolution: “What if there’s weird discontinuous jumps to both skill and performance, and taking on a new frame/strategy/practice bumps you to the next level, without your effort going up proportionally?”