If it were possible to teach people reliably how to become exceptional, then it would no longer be exceptional.
I think people can teach you how to become exceptional, but they can’t guarantee the tail distribution success of a Warren Buffett. Because some of that was likely dumb luck. Right person, right biases, right preferences, right place, right time. Fitness for an environment meets the environment it best fits. Slightly different environment gives entirely different result.
It seems to me that you can’t teach excellence because excellence is notice something important about the world that no one else has developed, and develop it. There are ways of increasing the odds of doing this, but by definition it can’t be reduced to a specific method.
If you can teach others reliable ways of increasing our odds of noticing novel important things about the world and developing those things in worthwhile ways, it seems to me I’m not mis-stating the situation significantly if I describe you as teaching excellence.
I think people can teach you how to become exceptional, but they can’t guarantee the tail distribution success of a Warren Buffett. Because some of that was likely dumb luck. Right person, right biases, right preferences, right place, right time. Fitness for an environment meets the environment it best fits. Slightly different environment gives entirely different result.
It seems to me that you can’t teach excellence because excellence is notice something important about the world that no one else has developed, and develop it. There are ways of increasing the odds of doing this, but by definition it can’t be reduced to a specific method.
If you can teach others reliable ways of increasing our odds of noticing novel important things about the world and developing those things in worthwhile ways, it seems to me I’m not mis-stating the situation significantly if I describe you as teaching excellence.
I’d say that excellence is a description of level of competence and capability, not accomplishment or result.