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It is far more fruitful to evaluate the desires for achievement, than it is to force discipline. If one’s desire for achievement is pure, he will be sufficiently motivated to do all that needs to be done in order to achieve. If it is not, he will play clever and ineffective games such as discipline.

Direct Truth - Uncompromising, Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life

Kapil Gupta

Figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job. The customer only knows what she thinks she wants based on her experience with the current product. The innovator can take into account everything that’s possible, often going against what she knows to be true. This requires a combination of knowledge, skill, and courage.

Tren Griffin - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs

2017, Columbia University Press

I ask the fundamental question of rationality: why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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