What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

Originally asked

Peter Thiel, to job candidates, Zero to One, chapter 1, 2014

Peter Thiel, Zero to One, chapter 1, where it is introduced as his job-interview question. Thiel supplies his own standard: a good answer takes the form "most people believe x, but the truth is the opposite of x."

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Jensen Huang said elsewhere, not written here
So I think that what people misunderstand is somehow the best jobs are the ones that bring you happiness all the time. I don’t think that that’s right.

Patrick Collison, Stripe Sessions 2024, 2024 source ↗

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Arthur Ashkin Physicist; Nobel laureate in physics for the invention of optical tweezers
This light is shining on you. Do you know that it's pushing you?…Most people don't. But it is, because it's got energy. The only thing is, it's so small you don't feel it.
Recorded Hilary Brueck, Business Insider interview at Ashkin's home, 26 January 2019 source ↗
François Ozon Film director and screenwriter
I think they have no duty. But we do have the opportunity, not to change the world, but to make people think differently.
Recorded Mersa Auda, The Upcoming, 30 May 2018 source ↗
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Founder and executive chairperson of Biocon
My big idea is to marry affordability and access to ensure that we leverage innovation to develop affordable, cutting-edge therapies for chronic diseases.
Recorded Leah Fessler, How We’ll Win, Quartz, 20 July 2022 source ↗
Abby Wambach United States international footballer, 2001–2015
For power to stay in power, the powerful have to impose some level of fear over the people that they are in power over. If you have power, you make decisions and if you make decisions you can probably keep power.
Recorded Matthew Hall, Guardian interview, The Guardian, 9 April 2019 source ↗

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