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Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People
human improvement of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. John Stuart Mill
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
You need to find ideas that the people around you don’t talk about. You need to challenge your mind to expand in new directions. You need to wrestle with hard questions without getting the answers right away.
Paul Musso, PhD • Why You Need a Micro-Philosophy
Instead of applying the simple mechanisms of behaviorism, we need to think about people in more creative ways, if we expect them to be creative. We need to foster joy, intellectual challenge, individuality, curiosity, and other qualities that don’t fit into a tidy chart.