Nature (eventually) weeds out bad ideas.

It doesn’t matter whom the idea comes from.

You can get away imposing your authority to use a bad idea instead of listening to someone “inferior” who has a better idea…

But ultimately, your ego just wins the battle, not the war.

The war is not against your petty rival holding a better or worse idea than you. But against nature.

When you disassociate ideas from people and your ideas from yourself, and take the critical approach to any and all kinds of ideas, you can win the war against nature.

The Amazing Things & Ideas List

1. Tweet I’m pondering:

Naval @naval

Evolution works by mutation and selection. Innovation works by trial and error. Science works by conjecture and criticism. Free markets work by entrepreneurship and risk. All truth-seeking systems work roughly the same way.

12:16 AM ∙ Nov 28, 2020

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2. Podcast I’m listening to:

3. What I’m reading:

The Use of Knowledge in Society by F.A. Hayek

New Podcast Episode

#12 – James Pierce: Perspective, Prescriptions, and Sincerity

James is a writer, executive coach, and philosopher.

We talk about:

• How modern psychology weakens the mind

• Perspective and “direct observation”

• Shoulds, prescriptions, and Kapil Gupta

• The cause for all relationship problems

• And much more

Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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