Fareed Zakaria: What is your worst intellectual habit?

Originally asked

Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017

Vox's fixed 9 Questions format asks this verbatim across respondents.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Fareed Zakaria said elsewhere, not written here

Wasting time reading blogs, magazines, newspapers. They have their place but they can become an addiction. And the real ways to gain understanding about issues are reading books and traveling.

Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 20 May 2017 source ↗

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Jacqueline Novogratz Founder and chief executive of Acumen

I don’t. Need a better system. Feel too owned by it right now.

Recorded Thrive Global, The Thrive Questionnaire, Thrive Global, 27 June 2017 source ↗

Albie Sachs Anti-apartheid lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

And I got stuck in my unconscious for years. I had trouble getting out of explaining, “When I walk, why does my left foot go in front of my right foot?” There was nothing that just happened. Everything had to be predetermined, explained.

Recorded Interview, Cape Town, South Africa, American Academy of Achievement, 3 July 2009 source ↗

Adam Zagajewski Poet and essayist

But it seems to me that I’m somebody who is deeply skeptical and trying to combat this skepticism. So my writing is probably situated somewhere between the poles of skepticism and ecstasy, with my dream being to have more ecstatic poems.

Recorded Agnieszka Tennant, Christianity Today, June 2010 source ↗

Henry R. Kravis Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.