Jackie Robinson was not remotely dominant, but he changed the arc of athletic participation in this country. Longer term fame comes not from dominating something but re-inventing it or changing the direction of it - being in other words an enormous deviation from the norm. His exceeding dominance allowed him to be exceedingly famous (he was arguably the most famous man in the world in the 1990s).īut then someone else will come along who will be just as dominant – in this case Lebron James.Įach new exceedingly dominant NBA player in the years that follow will diminish Michael Jordan fame’s – just as he diminished the fame of those before him.Īnd just as Lebron diminishes Jordan, future basketball players will diminish Lebron. Now sometimes the top guy in a niche is exceedingly dominant like say Michael Jordan in the game of basketball. It was a form of repeatable memory in a historical sense. We don’t remember the richest or most powerful guy of early 19th century Austria because there were a lot of versions of that guy. Like if one day a guy walked into the office naked carrying a gun - your brain would distinctly remember when that happened and how it happened.įor instance, we all remember where we were and what we were doing when 9/11 happened. You still have specific memories but they tend to be sharp deviations from that norm. So instead, your brain auto-erases the specific details of everything that is similar and remembers it as a blurred thing. It would be pointless to remember the experience of writing every single email that you wrote. Your brain like a computer needs to try to function efficiently. When you think back on say writing an email, you likely have no memory of writing a specific email or when you wrote it, you just have a blurred memory of the fact that you wrote a lot of emails at that job. The vast majority of your day consisted of repeatable tasks. What exactly do you remember about this job? Think back to a job where you went to an office every day and sat at the same desk and performed the same tasks. To understand long term fame, you have to understand long term memory.
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