Investing
Regularly question your certainty.
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain
But alongside the conviction required to be misunderstood, the greats seem to balance an interesting tension:
Certainty is often more dangerous than uncertainty.
The most dangerous ideas are the ones
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It’s hard to get really depressed until your dreams come true. Once your dreams come true and you realize you feel the same way you did before then you get a feeling of hopelessness.
Les Schwab learned firsthand that trusting your gut can defy conventional limits and transform industries:
“I’ve often said that sometimes guts pays off more than brains, because, if I had followed advice, and, if I had had a formal business education behind me, I never would have started the profit sharing contract in the form I did.”
Instead of rel
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Jeff Bezos on not under-estimating opportunity:
“I think it's generally human nature to over-estimate risk and under-estimate opportunity. ... The risks are probably not as big as you perceive and the opportunities may be bigger than you percieve.”
