Building Relationships, Multidisciplinary Thinking, and True Independent Thinking

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Underestimating the number of people you rely on can be costly and it's important to stay in their good graces. Multidisciplinary thinking, as demonstrated by successful investor Tom Gaynor, is crucial for understanding how the world works and connecting dots between fields. True independent thinking is rare but important, as it shows that your views on one topic cannot be predicted from your views on another.

This episode is about the difference between intelligence and smarts, and why one is valued more than the other despite being less useful in the world.

The core here is realizing that people are not spreadsheets. They are emotional, hormonal, misinformed, status-seeking, insecure creatures trying their best to make it through the day. So if you have to choose between understanding how the world should work in theory vs. how it actually works in practice, lean towards the latter. It’s like historian Will Durant once said: “Logic is an invention of man and may be ignored by the universe.” That is so smart.