Daily Productive Sharing 1231 - A Surprising Amount of Detail

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John Salvatier shares the most important lesson he has learned from all his practice: reality hides a surprising amount of detail.

1. This also explains why people can easily plateau intellectually, even when they are world-class in their field.
2. At every step and every level, there are countless details that have real, practical impact.
3. The presence of "surprising detail" is almost a universal feature of reality.
4. If you're a programmer, you might think that programming is uniquely tedious—but actually, everything is tedious. You just notice it more when doing new things, and programming happens to expose you to novelty constantly.
5. The laws of physics are often simple, but their specific manifestations are complex and counterintuitive.
6. Surprising detail isn't confined to "human" or "complicated" fields—it appears everywhere, from space travel to sewing to understanding your own inner experience.
7. The harder the task, the more important it becomes to grasp the critical details.
8. You might hope that these details don't matter to your task—but they do.
9. You might also hope that important details will announce themselves when you encounter them—but they won’t. Even if they are right in front of you, you may not notice.
10. Until you recognize them, important details are almost "invisible" to you. It’s hard to focus on them because you don't yet know what you should be looking for.
11. This makes it easy to fall into stagnation—stuck in your current way of observing and thinking.
12. The details you've already noticed become so familiar that they feel transparent and insignificant, while the truly important ones remain unseen.
13. This means you could already be stuck right now—and the evidence is right in front of you, though you can’t yet see it.
14. The direction for improvement is clear: look for the details you usually overlook.
15. If you want to get unstuck, you must work on perceiving what you currently can't yet perceive.

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John Salvatier 从他所有的实践中学到一件事，那就是：现实中隐藏着令人惊讶的大量细节：

1. 这也解释了为什么人们很容易在智识上陷入停滞，哪怕他们已经是某个领域世界顶尖的人。
2. 在每一个步骤和每一个层面上，都存在着大量具有实际影响的细节。
3. 这种“令人惊讶的细节”几乎是接近现实的普遍特性。
4. 如果你是一名程序员，你可能会以为编程的繁琐性是编程领域特有的。但实际上，一切都是繁琐的，只是你在做新事物时才会注意到繁琐，而编程恰好让你经常做新事物。
5. 物理规律本身往往非常简单，但这些规律的具体表现形式却常常复杂且反直觉。
6. 这种令人惊讶的细节不仅存在于“人类”或者“复杂”的领域，它普遍存在于从太空旅行到缝纫，甚至你对自己内心体验的认知之中。
7. 你的任务越困难，理解关键细节就越重要。
8. 你可能希望这些令人惊讶的细节与你的任务无关，但实际上并不是这样。
9. 你可能也希望那些重要的细节在你遇到时能自然而然地显现出来，但也并非如此。这些细节即使直接出现在你面前，也不会自动被你注意到。
10. 在你察觉到重要细节之前，它们对你来说几乎是“隐形”的。很难专注于它们，因为你甚至不知道自己应该寻找什么。
11. 这意味着你很容易陷入停滞，停滞在自己当前的观察方式和思维模式中。
12. 你已经注意到的细节对你来说变得太过熟悉，变得透明无感；而那些真正重要的细节，仍然对你是不可见的。
13. 这意味着，你此刻就可能正处于智识停滞中，证据就在你眼前，而你却无法看见。
14. 改进的方向非常明确：去寻找那些你平时不会注意到的细节。
15. 如果你希望不再被卡住，就要努力去感知那些你尚未感知到的事物。

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