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Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent

Conversations with Tyler

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How to Learn How to Hang Glide

There were two or three places in your writing where you mentioned that you had a fear of flying. You used the past tense, which implies you got over it, but you never told anyone how. I learned how to hang glide, which sounds crazy,. That will do with them, right? If you're afraid of flying, how could you learn how to hang glider? But the answer is you learnHow to hang glide gradually. And so after he was good at hang gliding,  I took flying lessons. My fear of flying was completely cured.

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