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David Epstein: Curiosity as a Calling S2 E11

Meditations with Zohar

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The Importance of Self-Reflection

I'm willing to give more esteem to people who do things without being able to explain why I don't think being inspired or being possessed um is a bad thing. Maybe part of what generalists also gain from looking at themselves from an outsider's point of view is that they can perspective take and thus contextualize their project within a broader frame because they're sort of being forced to doing so. If you want advice for yourself pretend like you're giving it to a friend first as if you're talking to them to kind of get you into that outside view  and that really comes out of that observation that you can get.

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