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#22 Adam Grant: Givers, Takers, and the Resilient Mind

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Curse of Knowledge

We don't know for sure exactly when shakespeare wrote each of his plays. And i was stunned, looking back, to see that in the very same period that he was writing macbeth or king lear, he was also turning out to mon of athens. You can develop all kinds of mechanisms for gaining distance from your work, and those can help you judge it a little bit more accurately. It's never going to be nearly as accurate as the wisdom crowd that didn't generate the idea.

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