Don't Worry About Looking Good - Worry

The Media Has The Power To Create An Entrenched Perception Of Reality That's Incorrect.

I Have A Bad Rote Memory, But I Tend To Learn Through My Experiences. And Then When I Went Into The Markets, And Then Starting My Business As An Entrepreneur, That Affected My Thinking A Lot, Too, Because In Order To Be Successful As Both An Investor And An Entrepreneur, One Has To Be An Independent Thinker And Bet Against The Consensus And Be Right. Because The Consensus Is Built Into The Price, And If You're Not An Independent Thinker In The Markets You Won't Succeed. And If You're Not An Independent Thinker As An Entrepreneur Starting Out, You're Not Going To Bring Anything Special.

I'd Like To Be Clear That A Number Of People Find Me Intolerable, And They Don't Hesitate To Say So - Which They And I Cherish.

I Believe That Our Society's "mistake-phobia" Is Crippling, A Problem That Begins In Most Elementary Schools, Where We Learn To Learn What We Are Taught Rather Than To Form Our Own Goals And To Figure Out How To Achieve Them. We Are Fed With Facts And Tested And Those Who Make The Fewest Mistakes Are Considered To Be The Smart Ones, So We Learn That It Is Embarrassing To Not Know And To Make Mistakes. Our Education System Spends Virtually No Time On How To Learn From Mistakes, Yet This Is Critical To Real Learning.

Don't Be A Perfectionist, Because Perfectionists Often Spend Too Much Time On Little Differences At The Margins At The Expense Of Other Big, Important Things. Be An Effective Imperfectionist. Solutions That Broadly Work Well (e.g., How People Should Contact Each Other In The Event Of Crises) Are Generally Better Than Highly Specialized Solutions (e.g., How Each Person Should Contact Each Other In The Event Of Every Conceivable Crisis).