### Create Filters - Optimize consumption to insight flow - Maximize for quality insights - Minimize for information quantity #### First Rate Intelligence - Scott Fitzgerald Fitzgerald writes that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” - Be able to function even if you have 2 opposing ideas in mind - A smart person says gold is just a shiny piece of metal, & then there’s also a smart person saying it’s a great store of value #### Informational Surprise - Mark Twain "It ain't what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know that just ain't so" - What is everybody predicting that will linearly continue? What informational surprise will challenge that? #### Look where no one is looking - Schopenhauer “Talent can hit a target that nobody else can hit, and genius can hit a target that nobody else can see” - What might people know for sure, that might be wrong? Look for the non-obvious, low [[probability]] things - Bring what is Important and not so obvious, to the important and obvious realm. - Talent can be asymmetric, hitting targets that nobody else can see - FInd & have secrets that nobody else knows - Be non-consensus and right - Talent is hitting a target that nobody else can hit, genius is hitting one that nobody else can see. - Find stuff that nobody else has found or discovered and get people to agree / convince them, just at a later time