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Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Asking the Simplest Questions

Spencer: I think that when you're learning subjects something that you should be really keeping your eye out for is the simplest question in the field. And a lot of the time people try to learn physics or something and their approach is to try and as quickly as possible be able to answer hard questions about complicated subjects, he says. "It feels to me now that it's a lot more productive to really seek out questions that are as simple sounding as possible while still being really hard to answer"

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