{"id":3331,"date":"2024-03-20T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/you-dont-get-out-what-you-put-in\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T05:19:08","slug":"you-dont-get-out-what-you-put-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/you-dont-get-out-what-you-put-in\/","title":{"rendered":"You don\u2019t get out what you put in"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">One of the most important things I didn&#8217;t understand about the world when I was a child is the degree to which the returns for performance are superlinear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">Teachers and coaches implicitly told us the returns were linear. &#8220;You get out,&#8221; I heard a thousand times, &#8220;what you put in.&#8221; They meant well, but this is rarely true. 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