Björk Guðmundsdóttir: What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

The question

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

Originally asked

Peter Thiel, to job candidates, Zero to One, chapter 1, 2014

Peter Thiel, Zero to One, chapter 1, where it is introduced as his job-interview question. Thiel supplies his own standard: a good answer takes the form "most people believe x, but the truth is the opposite of x."

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

Björk Guðmundsdóttir

Icelandic singer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I have a lot of hope in mushrooms!

Matthieu Jacquet, Numéro, 13 March 2023 source ↗

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Derek Sivers Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want

I don’t like live music. (I know that is a very despicable opinion.) I love great recordings.

Recorded personal website, Derek Sivers source ↗

Alan Shepard Naval aviator and astronaut; the first American in space and the fifth person to walk on the Moon

And I say, “Every single dollar that was spent on the space program, went into the pockets of the individuals who worked on it: the contractors, the subcontractors, the vendors. It went to feed their children, put clothes on their back, send them to school.…If we are going to be the leaders of the world, and we are going to worry about trade balance, if we are going to worry about military systems, or solving the problems of the environment, we are going to have to continue to spend money on research, medical research as well.

Recorded Houston, Texas, Academy of Achievement, 1 February 1991 source ↗

Alexa Chung English television presenter

I don't want to look sexy in photographs. I think it's an easy option. I'm so sick of girls pushing their boobs up in Myspace photographs. I hate the way women want to be "hot" all the time.

Recorded Eva Wiseman, Women, The Guardian, 6 July 2008 source ↗

Benedict Cumberbatch English actor

I feel we are in danger of vanilla-fying and perfecting and asphalting over the thing that makes us human, which are our fallibility, our mess, and our inaccuracy, all of which creates the tension, ... .

Recorded GamesRadar, Interview, GamesRadar, 22 November 2025 source ↗