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Experimentation of process
Scientists are more likely to try new things with small teams before a hot streak and large teams when it begins. Your future work is to analyze how long your experimentation period should be.
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Switch Your Approach, Focus
Once you see success, stick to a narrower than expected approach. It helps one become substantially more focused on what they work on, reflecting an exploitation strategy during hot streak.
Experimentation and implementation of learning is the formula for a hot streak.
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Creative Career or not?
Those in creative careers often see a burst of success. That burst or a "hot streak" is seen right after an experimental phase of focus on one approach.
Many creatives find themselves on a roll at some point in their career, like Peter Jackson (Lord of...
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One Hot Streak
"About 90% people have at least one hot streak" says Prof Dashun Wang, NWU.
To facilitate a breakthrough, create an environment that will help achieve your full potential. Your work would be more diverse before you see a true hot streak.
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The hot streak
Researchers analyzed the career-long performance of more than 20,000 scientists, 3,000 artists, and 6,000 filmmakers.
They found and confirmed the existence of a "hot streak" in one's mid-career - a multiyear where there are a series of successful outcomes within a finite period.
One Hot Streak
"About 90% people have at least one hot streak" says Prof Dashun Wang, NWU.
To facilitate a breakthrough, create an environment that will help achieve your full potential. Your work would be more diverse before you see a true hot streak.
Benefiting from an organized effort
The world would benefit from an organized effort from various disciplines to understand:
- How we should identify and train brilliant young people.
- How the most effective small groups exchange and share ideas.
- Which incentiv...
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