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aliases: []
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title: Individual Ability
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- authorship/original
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- destiny/permanent
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- status/incomplete
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- topic/individualism
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- topic/ergonomics/organizational
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- type/philosophy
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dg-publish: true
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---
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# Individual Ability
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**Effort is the smallest part of improvement.**
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This note is about practical ability.
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For discussion of how others _perceive_ ability,
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see [[professionalism]].
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Individuals differ in **learning rate** and **capacity for familiarity**.
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Whether nature or nurture is to blame,
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there is little an adult can do to move those needles.
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Making the most of the resources one has
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requires developing effective coping mechanisms
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(like [[note-taking]]).
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To gain and maintain skill is time consuming.
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The barrier to greater professional skill
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for most people is **prior responsibility**.
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## Capacity for Familiarity
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There is a practical limit to the mind's "shelf space".
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It's not only a question of experience or exposure,
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familiarity requires maintenance.
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> [!example]
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> As of 2025-11-05 the original content of [[this-notebook]]
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> would take almost two hours to read,
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> and though I try to make it otherwise,
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> it likely doesn't contain an eighth of my professional knowledge.
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## TALK
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Expertise as heuristics and biases
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[Daniel Kahneman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman)
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