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Number of words: 122<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHENEVER I INTERVIEW someone for a job, I like to ask this question: \u201cWhat important truth do very few people agree with you on?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This question sounds easy because it\u2019s straightforward. Actually, it\u2019s very hard to answer. It\u2019s intellectually difficult because the knowledge that everyone is taught in school is by definition agreed upon. And it\u2019s psychologically difficult because anyone trying to answer must say something she knows to be unpopular. Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpted from \u2018Zero to One\u2019 by Peter Thiel<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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