Recuerda nuestra pregunta paradójica: ¿con qué verdad importante para usted concuerdan muy pocas personas? Si

Question for job applicants: What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?” This question sounds easy because it’s straightforward. Actually, it’s very hard to answer. It’s intellectually difficult because the knowledge that everyone is taught in school is by definition agreed upon.

Whenever I interview someone for a job, I like to ask this question: "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"
This question sounds easy because it's straightforward. Actually, it's very hard to answer. It's intellectually difficult because the knowledge that everyone is taught in school is by definition agreed upon. And it's psychologically difficulty because anyone trying to answer must say something she knows to be unpopular. Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

My friend Peter Thiel has written eloquently about the power of being a contrarian in his book Zero to One. Whenever I interview someone for a job, I like to ask this question: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?” This question sounds easy because it’s straightforward. Actually, it’s very hard to answer. It’s intellectually difficult because the knowledge that everyone is taught in school is by definition agreed upon. And it’s psychologically difficult because anyone trying to answer must say something she knows to be unpopular. Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

Only a few know, how much one must know, to know how little one knows

I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,

...there are few truths important enough to justify paining and reproving others for not knowing them...

Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

hay pocas personas que consientan en decir lo que creen, sino también porque muchas lo ignoran, pues el acto del pensamiento, por el cual uno cree una cosa, es diferente de aquel otro por el cual uno conoce que la cree,