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Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People
Best most useful advice I EVER got was from Jim Watson (DNA discoverer) over tea at his NYC apartment. 3 words, 2 meanings. AVOID BORING PEOPLE.
Josh Wolfe • Tweet
“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.” — Richard Tirendi
Peter Voogd • 6 Months to 6 Figures
if you want to find emerging and under-rated ideas, stop using algorithms.
These ideas are hidden and obscure. They’re the opposite of viral. Instead of relying on algorithms to find them, identify your favorite people and follow the people who influenced them.
David Perell • Algorithmic Blindspots - David Perell
Peter Thiel also has suggested in numerous public talks that “being Aspergery” may be useful for insulating oneself from many social trends and thus for maintaining originality in one’s thinking. In Peter’s basic model of human behavior, influenced by his former Stanford professor René Girard, mimetic desire is strong—that is, human beings look to
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