If you treat the future as something definite, it makes sense to understand it in advance and to work to shape it. But if you expect an indefinite fu… - Peter Thiel

If you treat the future something definite, it makes to understand it in advance and to work to shape it .

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.

Elite students climb confidently until they reach a level of competition sufficiently intense to beat their dreams out of them.

By definition, a secret hasn’t been vetted by the mainstream.