Values & belief

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

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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."

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 2 Arts and letters 3 Politics and public life 2 Technology 3
Read by age Any age In their thirties 1 In their fifties 1
Norman Borlaug Plant pathologist and agronomist; Nobel Peace Prize, 1970
I am now convinced that what began as a biotechnology bandwagon some 15 years ago has developed some invaluable new scientific methodologies and products which need active financial and organizational support to bring them to fruition in food and fibre production systems.
Recorded AgBioWorld, AgBioWorld, 6 May 1997 source ↗
Paul Farmer Physician and medical anthropologist; co-founder of Partners In Health
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.
Recorded unknown, unknown, Good Good Good, 21 February 2022 source ↗

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