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#148 Kenneth Stanley: Set The Right Objectives

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Second Heuristic Is Novelty

I feel much more pleased if I do something next that isn't what you would have expected me to do. Novelty is a very large component of interestingness. What's novel changes over time and so does the way we think about it. And so like running away, like novelty means running away from where you've been in the past. It takes a lot of energy to actually intentionally deviate.

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