Validation is a mirage

In the Lean Startup method they call this “validating your ideas,” so it’s tempting to spend the time convincing the person to provide you with validation. Instead, your mindset should be: “What does this person know, that invalidates something I thought was true?”

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myth that is really just about privilege and stacking the deck with high cards. Adam Grant thoroughly debunked this in Originals and he’s hardly the only one; the focus on risk taking is a product of cognitive bias. Remember what The Streets said—validation is what makes a low straight work—and add in a little boxing wisdom: slow is smooth, smooth

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