The generalized fuckup model of learning feels quite useful for a certain kind of personality.
If you assume you are predestined to do a certain amount of fuckups until you start running out of them and therefore will fuck up less, fucking up doesn’t mean “I’m worthless and can’t do anything right”, instead it means “okay, I can cross that one off my list”.
Of course, you might have a similar one awaiting later on, but that particular one instance of that particular one type of fuckup is done and won’t come again, and the amount of fuckups remaining is now lesser than it used to be!
And the right way to learn is to get all the inevitable fuckups done as fast as possible, which just so happens to match the right course of action for actually learning the stuff even outside the simplification of the fuckup model.
And eventually you will start fucking up in novel ways because you run out of the elementary fuckups, and the time between fuckups will start to grow greater and ultimately you will be a master because you fuck up in ways most people can’t reach while having run out of the fuckups people regularly have.
It has had a very positive impact on my social anxiety at least. 4.5/5 would recommend for people who haven’t thought of it before and think they could benefit from trying.
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