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保罗·格雷厄姆《《天才的车票理论》》· The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius · 行动 · 成长 · 投资 · 领导
The other solution is to let yourself be interested in lots of different things. You don't decrease your upside if you switch between equally genuine interests based on which seems to be working so far. But there is a danger here too: if you work on too many different projects, you might not get deeply enough into any of them. One interesting thing about the bus ticket theory is that it may help explain why different types of people excel at different kinds of work. Interest is much more unevenly distributed than ability. If natural ability is all you need to do great work, and natural ability is evenly distributed, you have to invent elaborate theories to explain the skewed distributions we see among those who actually do great work in various fields.
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定位:Essay, additional excerpt 5 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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另一个解决办法是让自己对许多不同事物感兴趣。如果你在同样真诚的兴趣之间切换,根据哪个目前看起来有进展,这不会减少你的上行空间。但这里也有危险:如果你同时做太多不同项目,可能对任何一个都不够深入。公交车票理论一个有趣之处是,它可能有助于解释为什么不同类型的人擅长不同工作。兴趣的分布比能力不均匀得多。如果做大事只需要天赋,而天赋分布均匀,你就得发明复杂的理论来解释各领域真正做出大事的人为何分布如此偏斜。
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格雷厄姆提出多兴趣策略及其风险,并用兴趣分布不均解释不同领域成就者的差异。
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你如何在广泛探索和深度投入之间找到平衡?当前是否项目太多导致都不够深入?
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