Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People

I’ll define freedom to keep playing as a domain-specific ability to see reality in unsentimental ways, and act on reality in appropriate ways.

don’t surround yourself with smarter people. Surround yourself with differently free people.

don’t surround yourself with smarter people. Surround yourself with differently free people.

The most common emotion people retreat from is some sort of identity insecurity. The most common emotion people retreat to is simmering resentment towards those who provoke the insecurity, which often drives a complex redemption-and-revenge life story.

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.

Mind-expanding surprises rather than gap-closing surprises.