The Betrayal of Experience
Is expertise sabotaging your success?
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6 min readJul 20, 2022
Laurence Gonzales almost had his hand bitten off by an ashtray.
As a child, Mr. Gonzales was fascinated by his grandmother’s ceramic ashtray, which was fashioned in the form of a coiled rattlesnake. Decades later, while hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains, he came across the ruin of a stone house. Picking through the rubble, he…
