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

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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 David Lynch said elsewhere, not written here
Most people, these days, they don’t even believe in reincarnation. They’d say, you only go around once.

Etan Ilfeld, The Etan Ilfeld Podcast / Watkins Magazine, Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT Magazine, 28 January 2025 source ↗

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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 ↗
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 ↗
David Vélez Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank
Pix is probably the most successful payment infrastructure run by a government in history. I think Pix has been what has allowed a country like Brazil to leapfrog developed economies like the U.S. and in Europe, and has positioned Brazil today probably five years ahead of the U.S. I don't think anybody understands that, and probably in the U.S. they didn't really expect that.
Recorded Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, interview, Fortune, 9 October 2023 source ↗
Leon Panetta Attorney and politician; Director of the Office of Management and Budget, White House Chief of Staff, Director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense
But if our institutions of democracy are not working, that is an even greater threat to our national security
Recorded Cal Fussman, Esquire, 14 December 2012 source ↗

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Question What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you have ever made — of money, time, or energy? Money & investment
Absolutely. My friend Charlie Lutes said the most we can do for ourselves is to take that dive within twice a day, bringing out more and more of that consciousness within and that consciousness has qualities, qualities of intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy, power, peace. All these things you’re gonna get more and more of. You cannot lose.
Recorded Etan Ilfeld, The Etan Ilfeld Podcast / Watkins Magazine, Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT Magazine, 28 January 2025 source ↗

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