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by marksellers 3223 days ago
Each standard deviation of excellence earned along any dimension extracts a greater toll on all others. It's good to have a specialty along one or two axes, especially given that you may not care much to be good at the grand lot of the other available skills you could attain. But to truly excell (3 or more sigma, let's say) is time-expensive.
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Gambler's fallacy.

Far more likely to just be regression to the mean.