The question

What belief do you hold that most people around you would reject or find surprising?

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."

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Hillary Clinton

Former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
I know that I can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional. But I had to learn as a young woman to control my emotions. And that's a hard path to walk. Because you need to protect yourself, you ...

Humans of New York, Humans of New York, Time, 8 September 2016 source ↗

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Wynton Marsalis Trumpeter and composer; artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center
I started saying in 1985 I don't think we should have a music talking about niggers and bitches and hoes. It had no impact. I've said it. I've repeated it. I still repeat it. To me, that's more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.
Recorded The Santa Barbara Independent, 27 September 2018 source ↗
Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of the United States, 1901–1909; Governor of New York 1899–1900; Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1897–1898
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Recorded Mental Floss, 10 March 2023 source ↗
Sarah Waters Novelist
I'm writing with a clear lesbian agenda in the novels. It's right there at the heart of the books.
Recorded N/A, N/A, Wikipedia, 1 June 2024 source ↗
Werner Herzog Film director, screenwriter and opera director
I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.
Recorded Anonymous, Goodreads, 1 June 2024 source ↗

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