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Confidence Before Validation
- Creative confidence comes from internal belief first and external validation later.
- Tim Urban says creators often need blazing self-belief to reach their first success.
Two Minds, One Brain
- Our brains contain an ancient survival 'primitive mind' and a 'higher mind' that reasons about modern life.
- Tim Urban frames many modern mistakes as clashes between outdated software and conscious thinking.
Flat-Earther Documentary
- Tim recounts participating in a documentary about flat-earthers to show confirmation bias.
- He realized everyone shares that cognitive machinery; only the beliefs differ in scale.