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When you're young, choose what you wanna do

When you're young, it's super important for you to consider which type of work you wanna be doing.

Because you can either be independent-minded or conventional minded. And it, more or less, depends on birth.

People who are naturally Independent Minded will find tasks, that require only being correct, frustrating. 

Similarly, naturally Conventional Minded people find tasks, that require thinking different, frustrating.

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How to be more curious?

  • Avoid situations that suppress curiosity. 
  • You cannot be curious about everything. So find those few things you care about.
  • Indulge in it. Investigate what you're curious about. Questions will lead to more questions.

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The three components of independent-mindedness work in concert

  • Fastidiousness about truth and resistance to being told what to think leave space in your brain
  • And curiosity finds new ideas to fill it.

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Curiosity

Briefly, all novel ideas come from curiosity.  

That's how people feel before finding them.  

Independent mindedness and curiosity can predict each other.  

(Except in children, because all children are curious.)

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Resistance to being told what to think about

Don't let anybody tell you your novel ideas are almost like practical jokes.  

All mainstream ideas of today were "stupid" back in the day.  

Like letting strangers sleep in your house. (AirBnB)

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Be sceptical

To be more independent-minded, be sceptical.

When someone says something to you, ask yourself "is that true?"  

You'll find "yes" is not always an answer.  

Some of what most people believe in will be proved false in the future, see if you can guess which ones.

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Novelty and Humour share a certain kind of surprisingness.

There's a definite correlation between having a sense of humour and being independent-minded.   

And there is also a correlation between being humourless and thinking conventionally.

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The Two Kinds of Work

  1. The one where you have to be "Independent Minded", that is, you've to be correct AND novel (think differently). Like startup founders, investors.  
  2. And the one where you have to be Conventional Minded, that is, you only have to be correct. Like managers and administrators

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Fastidiousness about Truth

 Fastidiousness about Truth means being careful about the degree to which you believe in something  

Conventional thinkers often think if something is probable, it is certain.

And if something is unlikely, it's impossible.

But Independent thinkers don't believe anything, about a...

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How to be more Independent Minded?

Independent mindedness is largely inborn, but you can still magnify it in yourself. 

Or at least, prevent yourself from diminishing it. 

There are 3 ways:

  1. Be less aware of the conventions 
  2. Surround yourself with Independent-minded people 
  3. D...

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You don't know if you're an independent thinker

People often don't really know if they're conventional thinkers or independent thinkers.

  • Independent ones think they're conventional because they're unaware of how most people think.  
  • Whereas Conventional ones think they're independent but they coincidently ha...

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Surround yourself with Independent thinkers

To be more independent-minded, surround yourself with Independent thinkers 

If you be with conventional thinkers, you won't be able to freely express your novel ideas.  

Whereas around independent thinkers, you'll find people sharing and appreciating their ideas. This will encourage y...

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Be less aware of popular conventions

To be more independent-minded, you've to not know what most others think.

Because if you don't know what most others think, you cannot blindly follow their beliefs and hence you will have to be independent-minded.  

But a conventional minded person will probably feel anxious about not...

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Internal Structure of Independent Mindedness

It's all about these 3 things:

  • Fastidiousness about the Truth 
  • Resistance to being told what to think about
  • Curiosity

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When you're deciding what to do, you have to operate on incomplete information. 

  • Unless you are fairly sure what to do, choose a type of work that could turn into either an organic or two-job career.
  • Early on, seek jobs that let you do many different th...

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