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

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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.

Recorded Alan Cumming said elsewhere, not written here
It’s killing the planet. It’s killing you. It’s killing all of us. Walk away.

Interview, Rorschach Test, Interview Magazine, 2 January 2025 source ↗

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David Lynch Film director, screenwriter and painter
Most people, these days, they don’t even believe in reincarnation. They’d say, you only go around once.
Recorded Etan Ilfeld, The Etan Ilfeld Podcast / Watkins Magazine, Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT Magazine, 28 January 2025 source ↗
Peyton Manning American football quarterback
They always say,  “Don’t take your job home.” When you go home, don’t take it. I don’t agree with that.
Recorded American Academy of Achievement interview, 22 June 2007 source ↗
Henry R. Kravis Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
I'd argue that while no doubt mistakes have been made, including by us and KKR, many have misunderstood (or greatly simplified) the model. They have overlooked how value is created -- and for whom.
Recorded KKR, 2024 source ↗
Tom Kerridge Chef and restaurateur
That everyone understood and respected the food pyramid, the way it all works. Good food doesn’t come cheap. You know, there’s a lot of heart and soul and care that goes in producing as well as cooking. So I’d give a little bit more love to farmers.
Recorded Liz Nicholls, Star Q&A, Round & About Magazine, 28 April 2025 source ↗

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Question How does a new work begin for you? Craft & work
No, I would never say that. I would never say that I do something just in order to put a fresh spin on it or do something different with it. I am drawn to certain plays because I think there’s something about them in the story that I want to tell, or that I think is relevant—something that strikes me. With Macbeth, I’m not doing this because I want to do a crazy interpretation or production.
Recorded Gerry Visco, Interview Magazine, 19 April 2013 source ↗
Question What scares you about getting older? Time & hindsight
I think acting your age is allowing other people to make decisions for you about how you should behave and what is age-appropriate. I encourage people to live and not be tied down with other people's expectations of what you should be doing. If you want to do something, go and do it. We overly worship the altar of youth. It's not good for our mental health. As a culture, we need to get better at seeing the beauty in aging and the beauty in things that are not young.
Recorded Eric Spitznagel, Interview, AARP, 6 January 2025 source ↗
Question Has knowing that you will die changed how you live? Death & what remains
I think the notion of a bucket list is kind of wrong, actually. If you want to do something, go and do it. Don't put it on a list and think, I want to do this before I die. What if you die tomorrow? Just go and do the things. Seize the day. A couple of years ago, I decided I'd like to do a dance piece, and I ended up doing this one-man dance-theater piece about (Scottish poet) Robert Burns. I just wanted to use my body in a different way.
Recorded Eric Spitznagel, Interview, AARP, 6 January 2025 source ↗

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