{"id":1142069,"date":"2015-10-10T08:30:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T12:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2015\/10\/10\/a-few-years-ago-jeff-bezos-stopped\/"},"modified":"2015-10-10T08:30:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T12:30:50","slug":"a-few-years-ago-jeff-bezos-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/10\/a-few-years-ago-jeff-bezos-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"A few years ago Jeff Bezos stopped&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A few years ago Jeff Bezos stopped by &#8230;<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;&#8230; he shared an enlightened observation about people who are \u201cright a lot\u201d.<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;<i>He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn\u2019t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait. It\u2019s perfectly healthy\u200a\u2014\u200aencouraged, even\u200a\u2014\u200ato have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today.<\/i><br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;He\u2019s observed that the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they\u2019d already solved. They\u2019re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;This doesn\u2019t mean you shouldn\u2019t have a well formed point of view, but it means you should consider your point of view as temporary.&#8221;<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;What trait signified someone who was <i>wrong<\/i> a lot of the time? Someone obsessed with details that only support one point of view. If someone can\u2019t climb out of the details, and see the bigger picture from multiple angles, they\u2019re often wrong most of the time.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><cite>https:\/\/medium.com\/@jasonfried\/some-advice-from-jeff-bezos-28b3c2938968<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A few years ago Jeff Bezos stopped by &#8230; &#8220;&#8230; he shared an enlightened observation about people who are \u201cright a lot\u201d. &#8220;He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn\u2019t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait. It\u2019s perfectly healthy\u200a\u2014\u200aencouraged, even\u200a\u2014\u200ato [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[198,269,270],"views":764,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}