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#668: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life”

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The Problem with All or Nothing Mindset in Criticizing

The speaker criticizes someone for declaring an entire book to be trash based on one thing they didn't like/nThe problem with isms is that they often operate as all or nothing systems/nIf a leader of a movement says something a person doesn't like, it can lead to the whole movement being deemed ruined/nThis mindset is akin to finding a fly in one's dish or a poo in the pool and draining the whole thing, which is an extreme reaction

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