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Inside Humanity's Infinite Improbability Drive - Matt Ridley
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Importance of Stories About Heroes
I'm persuaded by your account of innovation that it doesn't happen by some great man who has a eureka moment. But at the same time, I wonder if we want our entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs to be to believe the other story. One of the key messages in Peter Thiel's famous treatise 0 to 1 is you are not a lottery ticket. And he advocates definite optimists who don't iterate according to some lean startup process but actually envision a better future and then set about creating it from scratch. We're never going to get away from telling stories about heroes because it's something we just do as people. The old-fashioned deep tribal hero worship habit misleads us.
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