Dig for the grain — a framework by Ole Wang

Hand-drawn diagram of framework 279, Dig for the grain: Find what you did before anyone told you to. — Framework 279 · in one look

How to use it

List what you did at 4–10 that nobody made you do. Find the thread: what you lose time in, what makes you want to tell everyone. Build towards it, with the grain.

How sure we are

S Evidence: strong. Large trials or many studies, pointing the same way.

C Evidence: contested. The research disagrees. Named, so you can stop worrying about it.

Sources

Interest-work fit predicts performance and persistence (Nye, Su, Rounds & Drasgow 2012, meta-analysis) · Greene (🟠) · "multiple intelligences" is weakly supported (Waterhouse 2006, ⚠️).

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