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Chamath Palihapitiya: Freedom, Bitcoin, and First Principles | The Knowledge Project #94

Chamath Palihapitiya · 1h 30m · youtube.com ↗

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    if I can observe the present in a reasonably unemotional and detached way, to your point, I can put a plan together.
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    what sectors of the economy will benefit irrespective of whether we go to -5 or +5? Because I don't know what the answer to that question is.
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    when push comes to shove, um what you're always going to be fighting is yourself. Um panicking, overreacting, underreacting, um you know, um refusing to observe the present, um living too much in the past, wanting too much to believe in the future. So, it's all psychological traps.
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    if you define certain behavioral principles that protect you from the worst parts of your own psychology, um that's a winning strategy.
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    I really think that spending time understanding yourself and then translating that into actionable guardrails that you write down and you stick to um, is a really important thing.
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    I've learned that my pattern recognition before was too brittle. It was too superficial. I would ask dumb obvious questions for which any good CEO will have very good practiced answers.
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    people reveal themselves in small little ways over long periods of time. And when you can observe enough of those observations, you can pull them together to get a really good sense of integrity.
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    I allow myself to be seduced. I allow myself to sort of fall for the narrative. I allow myself to believe the totality of what that other person believes fully and completely.
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    Business school as an example has taught you that redundancy is waste and waste can be converted into profit and profit is converted into compensation. And I think that is what people have really drank the Kool-Aid on.
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    if I'm evolving, I will have learned so much more that my thoughts today will seem slightly immature and naive.