
#002 - David Perell on Commitment, Contradictions, & Weirdos
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You Can't Do Them Both
In order for weirdos to radically change society they have to think differently. Trying to justify all your intellectual intuitions is the surest way to turn them away. David Bowie literally believed he was an alien Einstein was obsessed with an occult researcher and died with sort of an eastern spirituality occult book on his bed right next to him. Nikola Tesla claimed that he received ideas out of conversations with radios John Rockefeller believe that he was doing God's work by making oil Schrödinger's cat discovered his famous equation during a camping trip.
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