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Smart people often fall into the trap of preferring to be right even if it’s based in delusion, or results in them, or their loved ones, becoming miserable.
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they’re never forced to question their ability to defend bad ideas.
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Simply because they cannot be proven wrong, does not make them right.
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Most of the tricks of logic and debate refute questions and attacks, but fail to establish any true justification for a given idea.
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Put simply, the fact that you’re not dead yet doesn’t mean that the things you’ve done up until now shouldn’t have, by all that is fair in the universe, already killed you
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he lesson is this: Speed kills
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They’ll jump between assumptions quickly,
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First, nothing is obvious. If it were obvious there would be no need to say so
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Fabien Cadet"I feel qualified to write this essay as I’m a recovering smart person myself [...] But one thing I did learn after years of studying advanced logic theory is that proficiency in argument can easily be used to overpower others, even when you are dead wrong. [...] The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they’re wrong."
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The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they’re wrong.
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Death by homogeny
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If the group, as a collective, is only capable of approving B level work, it doesn’t matter how many A level ideas you bring to it.
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Focus groups or other outside sources of information can not give a team, or its leaders, a soul
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A bland homogeneous team of people has no real opinions,
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same backgrounds, outlooks, and experiences who will only feel comfortable discussing the safe idea
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Find people with different experiences, opinions, backgrounds, weights, heights, races, facial hair styles, colors, past-times, favorite items of clothing, philosophies, and beliefs
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Unify them around the results you want, not the means or approaches they are expected to use
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If you go out of your way to find diverse experiences it will become impossible for you to miss ideas simply because your homogenous outlook filtered them out.
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which level is the right one at a given time.
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People worry about the wrong thing at the wrong time and apply their intelligence in ways that doesn’t serve the greater good of whatever they’re trying to achieve.
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The primary point is that no amount of intelligence can help an individual who is diligently working at the wrong level of the problem
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that short term bits of data are neither reliable nor a wise way to go about making important long term decisions
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They’ll jump between assumptions quickly, throwing out jargon, bits of logic, or rules of thumb at a rate of fire fast enough to cause most people to become rattled, and give in.
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nothing is obvious
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what problem are we trying to solve? What alternatives to solving it are there? What are the tradeoffs in each alternative?
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brockmoellerThe problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they’re wrong.
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