dont surround yourself with smarter people

Author:: Link:: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/11/05/dont-surround-yourself-with-smarter-people/ Tags:#media/article

• Summary::
  • advice to surround yourself with smarter people is dumb and a paradox. Instead, use heuristic of people being able to surprise you in “Huh?!?” way rather than just mild surprise. Surround yourself with people who are free in ways you are not
• notes::

  • My alternative to the heuristic, which many of you have heard in off-blog conversations, is that I am only interested in people as long as they are unpredictable to me. If I can predict what you’ll do or say, I’ll lose interest in you rapidly

  • The trick is to surround yourself with people who are __free __in ways you’re not. In other words, don’t surround yourself with smarter people. Surround yourself with differently free people.