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The Comfort of Being Wrong

5 min read
We've made being right so central to our identity that changing our minds feels like failure. But the ability to be comfortably wrong—to update your beliefs without defending your past self—is one of the most valuable cognitive skills you can develop.

The Expertise Burden

7 min read
Becoming expert at something makes you worse at the thing you originally cared about. Mastery doesn't amplify your original motivation—it replaces it with new ones that often contradict it.

The Obvious Advantage

4 min read
The most powerful advantages are invisible until you have them, obvious once you do, and completely forgotten by people giving advice. They're not skills you can learn—they're conditions that make learning possible.

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