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With these kinds of advice (entrepreneurial / life), you just take the best lessons and move on. I like your point by point analysis. But I guess you cannot lo
by varchar 12y ago
With these kinds of advice (entrepreneurial / life), you just take the best lessons and move on.
I like your point by point analysis. But I guess you cannot look at such articles solely through the lens of analysis.
On an unrelated note - I know a lot of successful professionals and entrepreneurs (mostly non tech and some tech). Surprisingly they are not that analytical as one would expect. They have great drive, self belief, instincts, people skills, adaptability, negotiation skills, ability to bounce back and perhaps several other skills. I realized at some point in my career that great intellectual / analytical ability is just one aspect required for a successful career and there were several other important skills / traits.
Warren Buffet famously said (I think in reference to stock analysts who pore through and analyze stocks endlessly)
"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."
- patkai 12y agoGood aspect! I know lots of mathematicians and excellent, "rational" engineers who are terrible investors and tend to go in dead ends with their excellent analysis. Our gut is smarter than we think!
- read 12y agoPsychology distinguishes rationality and intelligence as two separate concepts. You can be highly intelligent but not very rational.
- rkrzr 12y agoThanks for pointing this out. Even though I read Kahneman's "Thinking fast and slow", I did not truly understand that intelligence and rationality are orthogonal concepts. I've always implicitly assumed that intelligence is strongly correlated with rationality, but it seems there is a mild correlation at best: " it is a mild predictor at best, and some rational thinking skills are totally dissociated from intelligence"[0] [0]http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rationality-versus-intelligence http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rationality-vers...
- ekm2 12y agoHence the value of meditation.[1] [1]. http://www.alternet.org/story/152011/how_meditation_makes_you_more_rational http://www.alternet.org/story/152011/how_meditation_makes_yo...