Peter Thiel's now-famous interview question of "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" seeks, at least in part, to tease out whether the interviewee possesses an open-mindedness allowing her to see things differently from the herd.
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To offer this question more focus, let's define being "open minded" to manifest itself in the following ways:
- regularly doubting one's understanding of the world while simultaneously taking positions and acting based off of that current, imperfect understanding. - grateful when new knowledge or understanding leads to changing one's worldview to be more accurate.
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Thanks for any strategies or thoughts you can give here, HN. I mull over this one often :)
