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- The inability to confront reality can lead experts like pundits and therapists to overestimate their effectiveness, as they lack immediate feedback compared to fields like chess.
- Deliberate practice, which involves immediate informative feedback and results, is what distinguishes true experts from non-experts.
- Ambitious people often fall into the trap of setting extremely hard goals to avoid facing potential failure, but success comes from setting small, achievable challenges.
- Self-help books risk being useless without action, leading to 'epiphany addiction' where readers feel enlightened but fail to implement changes.
- To improve, one must pick tasks just hard enough to risk failure and test them in reality, as it's impossible to get better without confronting it.