Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Repact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,966. And today I want to read from Paul Graham's essay. For those of you who don't know, Paul Graham, he is the founder of the Y Combinator. He's big into tech and founding companies. I love to learn from Paul Graham in his essays. And I really like

this excerpt he says, quote, more generally, your goal should not be to let anything into your head

unexamined. And things don't always enter your head in the form of statements. Some of the most

powerful influences are implicit. How do you even notice these?

By standing back and watching how other people get their ideas.

When you stand back at a sufficient distance, you can see ideas spreading through groups of people like waves.

The most obvious are in fashion.

You notice a few people wearing a certain kind of shirt and then more and more

until half the people around you are wearing the same shirt. There are intellectual fashions too

and you definitely don't want to participate in those because unfashionable ideas are disproportionately

likely to lead somewhere interesting. The best place to find undiscovered ideas is where no one else is looking.

And this is from the article How to Think for Yourself.

I've always been fascinated by people who think for themselves,

who are not afraid to step away from the masses and to push against everyone's assumptions,

to look where no one else is looking, to listen to things that no one else is listening to.

And if you're listening to this and you want to improve, one of the things I understand is that

when you are around people or certain

industries you all read the same books we listen to the same music we do we have the same take the

same advice and then it turns into an echo chamber if you want to enhance creativity and start to

differentiate yourself and to be different look where no one else is looking,

listen to what no one else is listening to, read what no one else is reading.

And as you start to do that, go to different industries and learn from other people,

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