Socrates said it over 2,000 years ago. Most people still ignore it. “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
How do you think? What do you believe? Why do you act the way you do? What pattern keeps repeating, and where did it come from?
You can’t change what you refuse to see.
Steve Jobs interviewed 1000s of people at Apple.
He rejected 99% of them (almost instantly).
And only hired those who answered this ONE question perfectly.
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We simply do not know what will be required by the job market in the coming decades. What matters most is the capacity to remain flexible, and to have a wide range of skills – intellectual, physical and social.
One heuristic for making startups AI-proof is to make things human intelligence can't compete with either. For example, marketplaces are proof against AI competitors for the same reason they're proof against human ones.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but most things in life are way more achievable than you think. If you decide what you want, and go after it with full effort and intensity, the world will bend to your will far more easily than you might think. You can just do things.
The 2-4 hours you spend scrolling each day (or 730-1460 hours each year) is more than enough time to write a book, build a business, or get in shape. In the moment, it seems like nothing. That's why it's so dangerous. Your time disappears without you being conscious of it.
15 ECONOMISTS WHO PREDICTED THE FUTURE CORRECTLY:
1. Adam Smith (Predicted free markets would organize society better than kings)
2. John Maynard Keynes (Predicted government spending would become the economic lever)
3. Friedrich Hayek (Predicted central planning would always fail long term)
4. Milton Friedman (Predicted inflation would follow money supply — always)
5. Nassim Taleb (Predicted the 2008 crash before almost anyone believed him)
6. Peter Schiff (Warned about the housing bubble years before it collapsed)
7. Nouriel Roubini (Called the 2008 financial crisis with surgical precision)
8. Thomas Piketty (Predicted wealth inequality would only deepen with time)
9. Joseph Schumpeter (Predicted capitalism would destroy and recreate itself endlessly)
10. Irving Fisher (Got 1929 wrong but built modern debt deflation theory from it)
11. Paul Krugman (Predicted the euro would create structural problems for weaker nations)
12. Raghuram Rajan (Warned about financial system fragility in 2005 — was laughed at)
13. Ha-Joon Chang (Predicted free trade would not automatically develop poor nations)
14. Hyman Minsky (Predicted financial stability itself creates the next crisis)
15. Kenneth Rogoff (Predicted that high debt levels slow economic growth permanently)