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From this Anaximander concluded that human beings arose from other animals with more self-reliant newborns: He proposed the spontaneous origin of life in mud, the first animals being fish covered with spines. Some descendants of these fishes eventually abandoned the water and moved to dry land, where they evolved into other animals by the transmutation of one form into another.
Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement.Indeed, if there were such a thing as a purely logical principle of induction, there would be no problem of induction; for in this case, all inductive inferences would have to be regarded as purely logical or tautological transformations, just like inferences in deductive logic.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper
Before we get into how to build yourself as a CEO, a foundational question you should ask yourself is whether you really want to *be* CEO. Many people think that founders make the best CEOs because they have the vision and the drive necessary to inspire employees and investors and keep them marching in the same direction. But you, you the founder, should reflect on whether you want to keep doing the job of CEO as your company grows. You’ll be required to stretch yourself, to learn rapidly, and to recover from the many mistakes you’ll inevitably make. All the while you’ll be moving further away from your area of expertise (say, product, design, or engineering) and closer to the amorphous, frustrating role of leading people. It’s not for everybody.
From Start-Up to Grown-Up - Grow Your Leadership to Grow Your Business
Alisa Cohn
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