Skip to content

The question

What belief do you hold that most people around you would reject or find surprising?

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.

Hillary Clinton

Former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
I know that I can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional. But I had to learn as a young woman to control my emotions. And that's a hard path to walk. Because you need to protect yourself, you ...

Humans of New York, Humans of New York, Time, 8 September 2016 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 19 →
David Vélez Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank
Pix is probably the most successful payment infrastructure run by a government in history. I think Pix has been what has allowed a country like Brazil to leapfrog developed economies like the U.S. and in Europe, and has positioned Brazil today probably five years ahead of the U.S. I don't think anybody understands that, and probably in the U.S. they didn't really expect that.
Recorded Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, interview, Fortune, 9 October 2023 source ↗
Wynton Marsalis Trumpeter and composer; artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center
I started saying in 1985 I don't think we should have a music talking about niggers and bitches and hoes. It had no impact. I've said it. I've repeated it. I still repeat it. To me, that's more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.
Recorded The Santa Barbara Independent, 27 September 2018 source ↗
Sonny Rollins Jazz tenor saxophonist and composer
I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I'm a person who believes this life isn't the be-all and end-all of everything.
Recorded MusicRadar, Interview, MusicRadar, 25 May 2026 source ↗
Susan Wojcicki Chief executive of YouTube; Google's first marketing manager
Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution.
Recorded TechRadar, 16 June 2026 source ↗

More from Hillary Clinton

View profile →

More on values & belief

Also answered this

Werner Herzog, Tabita Rezaire, Whitney Cummings, Tara VanDerveer, Peter Thiel, Sonny Rollins

Search the directory for somebody in particular.

Explore further

Report this answer