You can’t make decisions based upon whether it will be popular or not. You have to make decisions based on whether they’re right.
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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.
American Academy of Achievement interview, 22 June 2007 source ↗
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