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Judgment is underrated. [1]
wisdom
knowing the long-term consequences of your actions.
“Clear thinker” is a better compliment than “smart.”
clear thinkers.
understand the basics at a very, very fundamental level.
rederive from the basics.
dealing with reality.
“monkey mind”
regurgitated
preconceived notions
moment of suffering—
is a moment of truth.
seeing the truth.
get your ego out of the way
ego,
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problem is their desire is colliding with reality
acknowledge it publicly
not going to delude myself
have empty space.
It’s only after you’re bored you have the great ideas.
A contrarian reasons independently from the ground up and resists pressure to conform.
Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
be able to uncondition yourself,
redesigns.
heuristics
For important decisions, discard memory and identity, and focus on the problem.
congruent
you’ll start believing your own lie,
I never ask if “I like it” or “I don’t like it.” I think “this is what it is” or “this is what it isn’t.”
radical honesty
Warren Buffett
praise specifically, criticiz...
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instinctual
Charisma is the ability to project confidence and love at the same time.
more right and more rational,
nonlinear returns
brain is a memory prediction machine.
lousy
Mental models
INVERSION
eliminate what’s not going to work.
being successful is just about not making mistakes.
COMPLEXITY THEORY
come to a system that operates in the face of ignorance.
we are fundamentally ignorant
ECONOMICS
