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Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People
As Tolstoy noted, most people ‘instinctively keep to the circle of those people who share their views of life and their own place in it’. When was the last time you spent an afternoon with a bee keeper or a shamanic healer?
Roman Krznaric • How to Find Fulfilling Work: The School of Life
Who should you speak with? Dialoguing with a variety of people, in a host of far-out ways, makes for a paradigm-smashing experience:
Mark Levy • Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content
The trick is to surround yourself with people who are free in ways you’re not. In other words, don’t surround yourself with smarter people. Surround yourself with differently free people.
Venkatesh Rao • Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People
A rule I've followed, with great success, my entire life:
Tolerate odd behavior in highly-intelligent friends & acquaintances.
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