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I see your (and PG's) point, and I think he tied it to a terrible example. Basically, Colombus won big despite being wrong on so many aspects. In truth he was j

I see your (and PG's) point, and I think he tied it to a terrible example. Basically, Colombus won big despite being wrong on so many aspects. In truth he was just very (incredibly) lucky. Thus I take the point as "do something stupid, you might just get lucky on something unrelated!". But I understand that PG's real point is "trust your instincts, don't listen to the naysayers, but adapt to the circumstances".

saraid216 15y ago
I don't think it should be necessary to be right about a lot of aspects. Going out and discovering how thoroughly wrong you are is a huge achievement.
- jarek 15y ago
  Even better when your friends can arrange for you to get paid a couple million for that.