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The Map

A map of the ideas in The Genius and the Impostor. Each station is one idea, and each line is a route you can ride from one idea to the next. Tap a station to start.

Capability & Access Automaticity Effort Inversion Automaticity Blindness Introspective Bias Competence Inversion The Special Brain Story The Impostor The Genius Adult Learning Genius-Led Learning Progressive Composition The Goldilocks Zone Implicit Learning Bottleneck & Chunking Everyday Genius Uncommon Genius Domain-Specific The Prediction Engine Routing Architecture Solution Space The Unreliable Narrator Trained Reasoning
The Genius Linethe learning engineThe Impostor Linethe inner narratorThe Machinery Linehow capability gets builtThe Access Linehow capability gets reachedThe Bias Linewhy we got it backwardsThe Intelligence Linewhat intelligence actually is
Curated routes
Start hereFive stops, from the everyday genius you already have to the practice that grows it.
Everyday Genius → Automaticity → Effort Inversion → The Impostor → The Goldilocks Zone
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The IQ routeFor the skeptic. The case against IQ, evidence first.
Trained Reasoning → The Bottleneck and Chunking → Domain-Specific Intelligence → The Special Brain Story
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The performance routeFor the practitioner. Why you choke under pressure, and how to get the access back.
Routing Architecture → The Capability-Accessibility Model → Solution Space → The Impostor → The Goldilocks Zone
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