Embrace naivety / Talk at CSM split this up
There is nothing more interesting or exciting than exciting curious naive and genuinely motivated people. Use that lack of information that lack of experiences to power forward and do things. People will look at you favourably.
Your mind can’t fit everything. Questions filter out the things you don’t care to fit and find a place for the things you do. So having a question becomes more important in proportion to the amount of information available to you, which these days is way too much. A question keeps you from getting sucked into the algorithmic noise, and surfaces
... See moreThe tool we developed is something I call the calibrated, or open-ended, question. What it does is remove aggression from conversations by acknowledging the other side openly, without resistance. In doing so, it lets you introduce ideas and requests without sounding pushy. It allows you to nudge.
The greatest lie I ever told myself was that expertise would set me free. It's a peculiar form of self-deception, this notion that mastery somehow equals liberation. I've spent the better part of my life accumulating knowledge like a magpie hoarding bottle caps, only to discover that knowing exactly what I'm doing has become the intellectual
... See moreYou don’t need the right idea. Just build momentum. That’s such a channeling convention.
Caro’s question is: How does political power really work in America?
Once he asks it, it takes the wheel. Caro is willing to go broke to answer it.
If you remember anything, remember this. You need a challenging end goal that you want to achieve, clarity on how to get there, and a simplified first step to reduce the friction of getting started.
This is why it is so important to figure out the big question you’re trying to answer. Putting yourself in situations that feed your mind what it’s hungry for lets you outwork everyone else without even realizing you’re working. You’re just trying to answer your question!