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When you have a seemingly original idea figure out who else had it and ask why they failed. That will give you insight into what you need to do better. Sometimes you will realize that it was a bad idea, other times you will know what to change to make it work.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
2a. Then you not only will start thinking for yourself. You will also start overthinking about why Apple didn’t put macOS on the iPad Pro, or why your friends don’t care about org-mode.
Friends? Overthinking - relative to standard set by who?
This is not a criticism - I'm just curious to know if I was bored because I have a short attention span, or if the amount of novel/useful content in the article plummeted sharply beyond the first few paragraphs.
I have found this saying to serve me well enough to memorize it.
I think the reason is that by the time an opinion has propagated to the majority, it is already outdated, and several years (sometimes decades) behind the newest available knowledge.
It is surely a mere coincidence that every time PG makes up some category of elite people he finds himself right in the middle of it.
It is surely a mere coincidence that every time PG makes up some category of elite people he finds himself right in the middle of it.
It seems to me that throughout the essay Paul Graham keeps undermining his own claims. Early on he states: > Independent-mindedness seems to be more a matter of nature than nurture. Subsequently he starts giving advice about how to make yourself more independently-minded: > Can you make yourself more independent-minded? I think so. This quality may be largely inborn, but there seem to be ways to magnify it, or at lea…
The curiosity part he mixed in would be opennes to experience, with about 57% heritability.