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The Strength of Being Misunderstood
“Most highly successful people have been really right about the future at least once at a time when people thought they were wrong,” Sam Altman writes. “If not, they would have faced much more competition.”57 Today’s laughingstock is tomorrow’s visionary. You’ll be the one laughing when you cross the finish line.
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Being generally misunderstood is a compliment, because nuance eludes the masses, and there is no greatness without nuance.
This is not a matter of articulation, but of abstraction.
Being commonly understood should bother you -
means you're basic enough to be grasped by idiots._... See more
🇬🇧 IM 🇬🇧x.comJust think about how much effort you have to put into maintaining the facade of being an Expert — how much effort it takes to always appear as “the one who knows”… and compare that to the freedom and flow and playfulness that can open up when you really allow yourself to sink into not knowing, when you no longer care if you make mistakes or if you ... See more