First and foremost - suspend any disbelief about whether you can solve it. This is hugely important. If it has a solution and you are going to be able to solve it, then it needs your full undivided attention and focus and motivation in order to make the best progress. The possibility that it doesn't have a solution and/or you aren't able to find one is the pathological case - you should only be concerned about the successful strategy and not be spending time on the pathological one. Secondly, be aware that difficult problems which haven't already been solved are unsolved for a reason. Be willing to be patient and dedicated to a long term investment of energy and time on your part to work on it
I think this is mostly just correlation, and the more direct tie is in the economic demographic. River drainage basins generally go like this - the affluent demographic live on the upstream side of the city, the poor demographic live on the downstream side that's dirty and polluted after passing through the municipal area
It's probably a good idea to use an RO filter regardless. It's a very straightforward way to reduce toxins directly entering your body. Virtually everything is now contaminated with environmental toxins, and we're effectively being bombarded. You can't avoid them but you can take steps to minimize your exposure/reduce your risk
Looking for a very specific set of things or type of resume is a huge oversight. Very few people are going to know what you're looking for, and anyone competent doesn't value their time so little to micropolish their resume for exactly your company. If you're not scanning every resume to read between the lines of how the applicant has devised their resume to try to digest what skills and experience and personality they actually have, then you're basically overlooking a significant percentage of those who apply
A corollary to this is if the company you're applying to isn't competent enough to figure out if you're right for the job, you probably don't want to work for them anyway
Repeated sessions of deep concentration in a particular subject or problem over a prolonged period clearly creates neural growth. I've tackled several extremely complex projects in my life, and in each case I found that I became increasingly proficient at working on them as time progressed. I started to realize epiphanies typically aren't that you suddenly discovered something, but are that your cognitive ability ultimately progressed to the point where you can fully understand something. By the way, in each of these periods I was regularly napping because of the mental fatigue. I have a sense that a lot of the neural growth happened during those naps.
> No, autism is not related whatsoever to the lack of empathy!
Also mentioned below, but https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/broken-mirrors-a-... would suggest exactly that it is related (or better, lack of empathy and autism are concomitant). You do have to consider the role of mirror neurons in empathy to make the connection.
Not only is there strong evidence for exactly that (lack of empathy) to be the case, those who work with autistic people commonly observe it. Moreover, it's now recognized that it may be related to mirror neuron development issues:
Well I guess you’ll remain mystified, because I’m not about to waste my time linking to all the extremely well-publicized stupid shit he’s said that you will obviously continue to play dumb about.
10,000 hours may be a vague rule of thumb, but it says nothing about what is going on, and it's not just a matter of practicing. Learning, knowledge, wisdom, etc. all come from neural growth over time - your brain responds to thinking/concentrating/practicing by growing in the areas of the brain that were used, and this growth accumulates over time. Even in much older people the brain is plastic and is producing new neurons in addition to growing existing synapses, albeit at a gradually slowing pace. A corollary to this is, don't expect to understand things immediately - keep working at new concepts and skills. If you persevere, over time you will understand them and become proficient.
It's important to note that "practice" can't be something like, for example, simply taking tennis lessons - you must be challenged and struggle for it to have an impact. I would also include desire as being essential - it must be something you truly want to do, not something you just go through the motions for. Also consider that your physical health, regular exercise, diet and quality of sleep are intimately tied to cognitive growth.
