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Summary: Openness equals non-discriminatory, right? Equals every new idea is a great idea. It's hard to be creative if you're not discriminatory. Great artists are picky and choosy over what they think the great ideas are. And so maybe you want like high openness, you want high low agreeability - which means high disagreeability.
Transcript: Speaker 1 It's like they're nervous system is not wired that way. And so you kind of need to close your eyes and kind of imagine, you know, what if you took somebody who was born to be a musician, for example, and you forced them to become an accountant, Right? Or vice versa, like what if you took somebody who was born to be an accountant and forced them to be a musician, right? And both people would be very, very unhappy. And so anyway, this is sort of the inherent trait of creativity, openness. So we say that, you know, that's one, you know, against the, you know, directly related one is agreeableness, right? So open plus agreeable equals every new idea is a great idea, right? Equals non-discriminatory. Well, it's hard to be creative if you're not discriminatory. Like one of the things that great artists have in common is they're like actually really picky and choosy over what they think the great ideas are and they throw away a lot of their like Initial attempts. And so maybe you want like high openness, you want high, you want actually high low agreeability, which means high disagreeability, right? So you kind of want that. Conscientiousness, you know, do artists or creators or programmers or entrepreneurs have to be conscientious? Probably yes, to some extent, right? And there's a sub-trade of conscientiousness called industriousness, which basically is like inherent work ethic, right? Sort of drive to get things done. So, you know, you probably need some of that. So, just to start with that, because, when I first heard something like consciousness, right?
Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk, Good Startup Ideas, How to Have the Courage to Think Independently and Finding a Co-Founder
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Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society.
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A Selection From the Discourses of Epictetus
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- Dan S. Kennedy - The Ultimate Sales Letter: Attract New Customers. Boost Your Sales - Mon Feb 10 19:07:42 -0800 2025
- Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth - Mon Feb 10 19:07:23 -0800 2025
- Henry Ford - My Life And Work - Mon Feb 10 19:06:27 -0800 2025
- Philip Freeman - Alexander the Great - Mon Feb 10 19:05:56 -0800 2025
- Arrian - The Campaigns of Alexander - Mon Feb 10 19:05:17 -0800 2025
- Steven Pressfield - The Virtues of War - Mon Feb 10 19:04:34 -0800 2025
- Jack Weatherford - The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire - Mon Feb 10 19:04:09 -0800 2025
- Michael Roberts - Gustavus Adolphus and the Rise of Sweden - Mon Feb 10 19:03:45 -0800 2025
- Warren Bennis - Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge - Mon Feb 10 19:03:18 -0800 2025
- Jay Earley - Self-Therapy: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Inner Wholeness Using IFS, a New, Cutting-Edge Therapy - Mon Feb 10 19:02:51 -0800 2025
- James P. Carse - Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility - 2/5 - Sun Feb 09 10:31:58 -0800 2025
- John Markoff - What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry - 4/5 - Sun Feb 09 10:31:03 -0800 2025
- Dale Carnegie - Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business - 5/5 - Sun Feb 09 10:31:40 -0800 2025
- A.G. Lafley - Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works - 4/5 - Sun Feb 09 10:30:23 -0800 2025
- Aldous Huxley - The Divine Within: Selected Writings on Enlightenment - 4/5 - Sun Feb 09 10:30:39 -0800 2025
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