In order to win in the market place of ideas, you need to develop original ideas. Critical analysis must be present in any type of thought leadership. If all your doing is re hashing the same unoriginal cliche aphorisms that everyone else is saying,. And likewise, if your being contrarian just for its own sake - people will quickly see through that. You don't want to distract people by taking them down this rabbit hole of providing loads and loads of context that distracts from a given insight.
#334: In today’s episode, we answer three questions from a college senior named Rafael.
He asks about productivity tools and tactics, student debt, Robinhood and market investing, and how to establish yourself as an expert in a given domain.
We answer his questions by widening the lens.
People often ask about productivity tools. “Do you use Asana or Trello?” But nobody asked Michelangelo what paintbrush he used to paint the Sistine Chapel. The discussion around tools misses the point, which is to master the craft.
Sure, we answer his direct, overt questions. But we also dive deeper, refining these topics and exploring the questions *behind* his questions.
This is an episode in which we peel layers off the onion.
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