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How to keep innovating.

Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton outlines some counter-propositions to the idea of achieving mastery and the dogged pursuit of excellence:

• Always be bad at something that you are passionate about.
• You can be everything in your life—just not all at once.
• When you get good at one skill, drop another in which you have achieved competence in order to make room for a new passion at which you are—yet again—bad.
• Life is too short to waste on bad teachers and inefficient learning.
• Remember: You can learn from anyone.

Full story: http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb2009/id20090218_337947.htm