1.1.1 - On individuality, avoiding boring people and the power of disagreement
Issue #8, 27th September 2022
🎨 Visual
Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.
The grass is always greener on the other side.
📚 Quote
Investor Josh Wolfe on the best advice he ever received:
“The best, most useful advice I ever got was from Jim Watson, [the scientist who discovered DNA], over tea at his New York apartment.
3 words, 2 meanings: Avoid boring people.”
Source: Josh Wolfe, Twitter
🔗 Link
Podcast: The Power of Disagreement by Founder’s Journal
This podcast discusses the importance of disagreement in your private and professional life through a 4-step formula of debating,
Have a shared goal
Attack ideas, not people
Invite confrontation, don’t give in
Always listen
An excerpt from the podcast that I want to share with you,
“Milton Wright understood that every opinion that we have has some truth and some error in it. Through honest argument collaboratively, we can find an even truer truth together….”
Have a good week, and remember to take it easy! 🤍
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