The Importance of Fixing Your Own Garden

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Jordan Peterson: Fix your own garden before you end up trying to solve everybody else's problems. It's really a fundamental statement about epistemological humility, he says. But yet at the same time, some nefarious folk can take over the parts of the system that do have levers and do a lot ofreally evil things. So there's a trade off there that's not, I don't think it's solvable.

Author Ryan Holiday discusses his book, Conspiracy, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. This is a crazy episode about a crazy book about a crazy set of events--the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against the website Gawker, a lawsuit that was secretly funded by Peter Thiel. Holiday explains how this happened and the lessons for all of us related to conspiracies, patience, strategy, and revenge. Along the way, Holiday discusses his techniques for reading and lessons for how to grab someone's attention when looking for a job or opportunity.