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GM Sharing what I consider one of my most important slides from a recent BTC in DC speech because it helps us understand why real change is slow and predictable. Zero to one moments are always possible - just rare as people reinforce their own view of the world from their past experiences. (Tuning out all things that don’t match their entrenched view) And while this is easy to see in those β€œother” people - we mostly miss the very thing in ourselves. (And seeing it in ourselves is the real superpower) image

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It's the outliers, always has been. Solutions can not come from where or how you've been searching. If they could they would already been found. You must step outside your own constraints, mirror the image, flip the table, introduce some randomness. My personal favorite is when the solutions to problems simply involve a change of your frame of reference. For example in architecture, when there is one large issue with the project you spent months fighting, then it turns out to be the defining feature. It's you that had to change your perspective in order to see it.
So true Jeff. The most important skill I’ve learned is to treat the external world as a mirror. I’m over a decade into this experiment and the emotional sobriety I now experience is priceless. If one is brave enough to really commit and persist with this perspective they will absolutely transform their experience of reality, and of what it means to exist with it.
So eloquently put Jeff . It is re-enforcing what David Deutsch advocates in his book β€œ The Beginning of Infinity β€œ Humans are always at the beginning infinity because we are always seeking a better way/explanation of how things work. Hence your statement that β€œThe natural state of the free market is deflationary β€œ . We have never live without n a β€œnatural state” because of β€œbullies/government β€œ prevents criticism which is the only way we can arrive at a better explanation for any problem.