11 answers answered between 1997 and 2026
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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I started with very traditional style sushi and Japanese food, but then I went to Peru when I was young (around 23-24), and that’s where I got my Peruvian influences and ingredients. So when I opened my first restaurant in 1987, it was unique because in Los Angeles [at the time] the Japanese restaurants were very traditional.
I try to be realistic about it. I’ve never had people come up to me and say, ‘I didn’t believe in that until I heard your music.’ Usually they’re like, ‘That’s how I feel too.’ I would love to be able to write a song to save the world, but I’m not converting anybody: it’s preaching to the choir. But the choir needs preaching to.
Drugs intensify one’s vision of reality. They also allow one’s character to dominate. If you’re bad, you become very bad, and the reverse. I speak here of marijuana, which intensifies one’s sense of personal reality. Heroin, on the other hand, dissolves character.
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