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<<One of the most useless questions you can ask a kid is, What do you want to be when you grow up? The more useful question is: What are you good at?>>

The author makes this ridiculous assertion. When people first do anything they are always bad. Over time, through an accumulation of small efforts they can become good at something.

Asking what are you good at is the most useless question.

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> When people first do anything they are always bad

Depending on what you mean by "bad", this is not necessarily true. Some people are better at certain things than others if you control for the amount of practice they've had. Take a group of children who have never played the piano. Give them a recording of a simple song, and tell them to listen to the song and play around with the piano for 1 hour and try to play something that sounds like that song at the end of that hour. Even with zero practice, some people will do better at this than others.

Indeed. When I was a baby, what I was good at was drinking milk, crying, and making messes in my diapers.

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