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Naval Ravikant on How to Build Judgement

Smart Friends

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Optimistic Contrarians Are the Rarest Breed

A contrarian reasons independently from the ground up and resists pressure to con form. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed. Shed your identity to see reality. I don't like to self identify on almost any level any more, which keeps me from having too many of these so called stable beliefs. We each have a contrarian belief society reject sbut the more our own identity and local tribe reject it, the more real it likely is.

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