How to Avoid Counterintuitive Stepping Stones in Decision Making

The speaker has a rule of thumb for decision making: avoid ideas that make too much sense. They believe that truly revolutionary ideas are counterintuitive and don't make sense at first. They prefer pursuing crazy proposals that may lead to something revolutionary. Ideas that make a lot of sense are not exciting because someone else will likely follow them. They prefer pursuing ideas that don't make sense and are more exciting.

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