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Nothing is as persuasive as what you’ve experienced firsthand.

• Since we’ve all had massively different life experiences, what seems obvious to me may be bonkers to you, and vice versa.
• Most debates are not really debates; They are two people with different life experiences talking over each other.
• Everyone is trying to make sense of the world through the lens of their own experience.
• As those experiences grow everyone’s lens tends to focus on a slightly different version of “truth” in the world – especially for social topics like politics, religion, and investing.