july

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I love childlike hubris at any age. Magic comes from people doing things they are told cannot be done. Huge fan of hubris fueled dreamers and underdogs 

There is another kind of hubris I see that stems from extraordinary success, money and power. I always wonder what # of one’s net worth triggers the brain rot kind of hubris. The kind that would throw humanity under the bus to attain more and more

When you are just starting out -- there are a lot more people who say "no" when they should be saying "yes" to your ideas. Essentially you are underestimated (and sometimes rightly so, because see naive hubris)

What I've seen is that as you become more successful, and increasingly over time, you get more people who just constantly start saying "yes" when they really should be saying "no" to your ideas (because, again its not like you've become less naive). This starts become dangerous, and puts you increasingly in a emperors wearing no clothes situation

I really think it becomes harder to have friends who tell you the truth consistently and how it is as one gains more success, or at least externally recognized. Just my two cents

Pertinent observation 👍 really. 

Although it’s good to keep the child inside of you alive and happy to make mistakes. 

I guess unless nations or wars depend on it (per Putin comment), people generally just do “higher stakes stupid things” without being checked by friends or others - but they can afford it, so in big picture, it is fine 🤷‍♂️ and it shouldn’t be strange. 

But I think everyone, we all, need to cultivate a bit of skepticism towards translating successful peoples’ status into “they must know what they’re doing” thinking in areas they have zero credibility in.