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*[[Don’t join in]]. From the pages of the contrarian handbook. ''It’s okay not to be joiner-inner''. It's ''best'' not to be a joiner-inner. If you’re the guy from BlackRock who ''didn’t'' post an #iam message ... ''good for you.'' That took a ton more courage. | *[[Don’t join in]]. From the pages of the contrarian handbook. ''It’s okay not to be joiner-inner''. It's ''best'' not to be a joiner-inner. If you’re the guy from BlackRock who ''didn’t'' post an #iam message ... ''good for you.'' That took a ton more courage. | ||
*{{maxim|Disdain fashionable things. Especially ideas.}} | *{{maxim|Disdain fashionable things. Especially ideas.}} | ||
*[[Be suspicious of svengalis]]. Especially svengalis with their own svengalis. People who are at the top of their field are as likely there by luck has got judgement. By all means by the products, but why buy the philosophy of a guy who may well just have fluked it. See also: don’t listen to rock stars when they talk about economics. Would you listen to economists when they talk about rock music? | |||
===Harden up=== | ===Harden up=== | ||
*{{maxim|The glass is half full.}} ''Always''. ''Whoever'' you are, ''wherever'' you are. If you have the time, resources and cognitive ability to read ''this'' diatribe, you’re one of the lucky ones. ''For Christ’s sake, buck up''. | *{{maxim|The glass is half full.}} ''Always''. ''Whoever'' you are, ''wherever'' you are. If you have the time, resources and cognitive ability to read ''this'' diatribe, you’re one of the lucky ones. ''For Christ’s sake, buck up''. | ||
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*[[Harden up]]. Sticks and stones. | *[[Harden up]]. Sticks and stones. | ||
*[[Be careful in what you wish for]] - on this score, [[if you want to get to the Olympics, take up curling]]. | *[[Be careful in what you wish for]] - on this score, [[if you want to get to the Olympics, take up curling]]. | ||
*[[Wing it]]. It will be fine. You will figure it out. Over planning anything is the lawyers folly, and cut you off from serendipitous opportunity. You make a much better decision on the spot in right of circumstances than you can possibly do in abstract in advance. | |||
====What you’ve got. Be ''additive''==== | ====What you’ve got. Be ''additive''==== | ||
*[[Do it properly]]. Build for the long term. The lesson of Worcester: if you make it easy, you will attract the mediocre and encourage them to be lazy. If you do it properly, it will stand for 1,000 years and still take the breath away. | *[[Do it properly]]. Build for the long term. The lesson of Worcester: if you make it easy, you will attract the mediocre and encourage them to be lazy. If you do it properly, it will stand for 1,000 years and still take the breath away. | ||