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People who call themselves non-analytical often say that they couldn’t do or understand something and that it’s over their head. Nonsense.When supposedly smarter people do or say something that’s over your head, do you think they were born that way? Of course not.They reached that point through education and hard work. It wouldn’t be over your head if you did the same.Analytical intelligence is easy to show off, but other kinds of intelligence are just as important but more subtle.There are also many things you know that the other person doesn’t. I don’t care how smart they are; there are…
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Categories: More Relevant (Other Philosophy)
Have a couple of weeks of PTO? Instead of spending lots of time and money on a two-week vacation, consider spending that time and money on a side project.Picking a career? Maybe focus more on how much money you expect to make from it than on how passionate you are about it.There’s plenty of content urging you to prioritize passion over money. It’s a personal choice, but I think about things a bit differently for my life.Passion and happiness at work are important because they boost productivity, but beyond that it’s not crucial.I would gladly spend ten years in constant…
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There are many types of intelligence essential in business, and each type is mutually exclusive from its opposite type.It’s impossible for one person to excel in every type.If someone is a genius in one type of intelligence, they struggle with another type.The smartest person is also the dumbest person.Individually, it’d be best to have a balance across every type. Collaboratively, it’s better to seek out imbalance.The most productive teams are ones that have a genius/buffoon for each type of intelligence.
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Categories: Less Relevant (Other Business)
As part of my never-ending Informal Education PhD degree from Non-Existent University, I finished listing to Leadership Principles Explained by Andy Jassy (CEO of Amazon) which is free from Audible. Here are two things I found interesting.1️⃣ Andy Jassy (who also narrates this short audiobook) talks in a remarkably similar way as Jeff Bezos.Andy even seems to do the unusual mouth/throat movements as a pause to his dialogue that Jeff Bezos does from listening to the audio. I previously suspected that Jeff Bezos did that based on having a mild form of some inconsequential mouth/throat condition, but it now makes…
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Categories: Less Relevant (My Career)
This post is in reference to the video in this hyperlinked LinkedIn post. (FYI, I do not endorse what William Naranjo is selling; I’m just referring to the video.)At least half of the time Elon Musk discusses his thoughts on something for over 2 minutes (that isn’t technical like rocket engine design), it feels erie because I drew those same conclusions that I’ve never heard anybody else explicitly say before.I remember sitting and thinking about the economics of technology taking people’s jobs as a teenager and basically concluded everything Elon Musk says in that video plus some additions. The limiting…
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Only an AGI could be better at ideation for ambiguous problems than humans. Modern AI is a great tool to use and it is more knowledgeable than any one human, but it is much less intelligent than a human.I think we’re very far from any form of AGI, but when/if AGI exists and it becomes better at ideation for ambiguous problems, AI will have become better than humans in every rational intellectual metric.AI would have become more capable in every white collar and blue collar position (assuming it is coupled with great robotic technology); from CEOs to plumbers.When/if that happens,…
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Being open-minded to new ideas is critical for a continuous path of exceptional success.The initial solutions I devise for a very formidable ambiguous problem are almost always wrong.I might feel confident that my solution is right at the time, but then hours later, I think up some critiques on my proposed solution and realize that it is unideal based on fundamentals I wasn’t previously thinking of.You can only get to the better solution after challenging your idea with every critique you can think of.(As a personal example today, I realized that groundbreaking and more effective solutions that I would provide…
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Categories: More Relevant (My Career)
Elon Musk became by far the most financially successful entrepreneur in the world by using his wildly unconventional solutions for ambiguous problems.There were many other factors, but without those wildly unconventional solutions, he wouldn’t have even achieved 0.1% of his wealth.Personally, my mind is also often like a continuous explosion of novel deductions and novel ideas based on those novel deductions (which is a more accurate description of what he’s talking about in the video).We all have a superpower/curse. Figure out what yours is, and try to use it as best you can.
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