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THE S CURVE OF LEARNING

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

—Star Trek’s Captain James Kirk

Captain James Cook was one of the greatest explorers and cartographers in history. He was the first European to visit what is now Sydney, Australia. He discovered the Hawaiian Islands and skirted Antarctica, sailing a total of well over two hundred thousand miles—essentially the distance from the earth to the moon. One-third of the globe was unmapped when he was born; when he died in 1779, he had explored most of it and drawn maps so accurate that they were still in use two hundred years later.¹

It’s unlikely Cook would have accomplished any of ...