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“After all, the purpose of learning isn’t to affirm our beliefs; it’s to evolve our beliefs.”
― Adam M. Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

“So you stumble about, surveying whatever vistas reveal themselves. Look for applications, connections, patterns. That’s it—patterns! One thing that makes me different is this desire—no, inner need!—to perceive how everything fits together. Principles, algorithms much more powerful than individual facts or unique solutions.”
― Robert Scott Root-Bernstein

“If you were negative or thought something couldn’t be done, you were not invited to the next meeting,” Mueller recalls. “He just wanted people who would make things happen.”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

“The symptoms of a writer who hasn’t found their way clear of the needs of Self yet are easy to spot. I should say the symptoms are easy for everyone else to spot, that is, and not so easy for the writer themself to see. You’ll see a writer who does not trust the characters to speak and move on their own, but has to puppeteer them; a writer who does not trust the reader to understand what’s written. One who must insert parentheticals in various forms to explain the work to the reader; flashbacks to explain; big black blocks of text on the page to explain; question-and-answer dialog between characters who aren’t in a courtroom; walk-and-talk characters with their mouths full of dialog of what the story is about; too many stage directions that make the script read like a novel…”
― Dan Joseph Decker, ANATOMY OF A SCREENPLAY THIRD EDITION