This same concept brought up by Ray Dalio in Principles. He’s fond of saying that we should view all sorts of things in life as machines and optimize their processing and output, and he suggests extending this to people and to oneself as well. His angle on it is as a path to addressing weaknesses, since people mostly go “I’m bad at X”, make a few tries to fix it, fail, and then resign themselves to being bad at this forever. But you can expand the definition of the machine you’re optimizing beyond yourself, and compensate for personal weaknesses via setting up some kind of system, or partnering with someone who is good at X, etc.
This same concept brought up by Ray Dalio in Principles. He’s fond of saying that we should view all sorts of things in life as machines and optimize their processing and output, and he suggests extending this to people and to oneself as well. His angle on it is as a path to addressing weaknesses, since people mostly go “I’m bad at X”, make a few tries to fix it, fail, and then resign themselves to being bad at this forever. But you can expand the definition of the machine you’re optimizing beyond yourself, and compensate for personal weaknesses via setting up some kind of system, or partnering with someone who is good at X, etc.