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Badass: Making Users Awesome
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Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra
January 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
294 pages
7h 11m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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41
The Challenge
Prologue
The ski guy and possibly others
Being better is Better
Being better means better results.
But being better is about more than just results. Being more
skillful, more knowledgeable, more advanced is itself an
intrinsically rewarding experience. The ability to make ner
distinctions in what you can see, hear, taste, perceive in the
environment can feel like a superpower.
When you’re more skilled at something, it’s as though a part of
your world got an upgrade. It’s as though pre-badass-you had
been experiencing the world in Standard and now a part of the
world has become High Resolution.
42
The Challenge
Prologue
Badass means higher resolution.
Badass means deeper, richer experiences.
classical music expert
“hears” more in the music
than most of us
Badass is about more than just results
The better you get at [x], the more detail you perceive in [x].
Greater detail is one of the most overlooked benets of being
better. To the human (and animal) brain, the ability to “pick-up”
more from the environment is deeply rewarding.
While the ability to gain more resolution in music is an obvious
benet, having a higher-res experience of nearly anything makes
that experience more pleasurable.
43
The Challenge
Prologue
The wine sommelier smells and
tastes more than most of us. ...
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