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Such ideas are not merely unsafe to dismiss, but disproportionately likely to be interesting. When the average person proposes an implausible-sounding idea, its implausibility is evidence of their incompetence. But when a reasonable domain expert does it, the situation is reversed. There's something like an efficient market here: on average the ideas that seem craziest will, if correct, have the biggest effect.

Crazy New Ideas

paulgraham.com

It is actually not the issue that causes the pain but your interpretation of it.

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp

Once you consider the power of stories, the traditional economist's notion of scarcity becomes inverted. Traditional economics is usually about acquiring things and thus overcoming scarcity, but a lot of human behavior is about creating artificial scarcity and then choosing a quest. Quests, which I define as stories of overcoming scarcity, require at least two kinds of scarcity. First, if you want to go on a meaningful quest, you must be lacking in something. Second, the protagonist cannot focus on everything and thus must choose and discard priorities to define a preferred quest.

Create Your Own Economy

Tyler Cowen

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