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How do you avoid copying the wrong things? Copy only what you genuinely like.
Copy What You Like
paulgraham.com
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous. Whereas the way these things are taught normally in college and school is a sampler of what this one wrote and that one wrote and you’re asked to be more interested in the date of the publication of Keat’s sonnets than in what’s in them.”
Joseph Campbell’s Daily Routine for “The Most Important Period of My Scholarship and Study”
Charles Chu
Nassim Taleb has a good model for thinking about this, he has said:
“With my family, I’m a communist. With my close friends, I’m a socialist. At the state level of politics, I’m a Democrat. At higher levels, I’m a Republican, and at the federal levels, I’m a Libertarian.
Naval Ravikant - The Joe Rogan Experience - Podcast Notes
podcastnotes.org
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