Perspective, you want it
Summary
If we’re talking about life like it’s a role playing game character sheet, you want to have a good perspective stat/multiplier. Julian Shapiro, What you should be working on: Michael Lopp, The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well: Let others change your mind. Ideas gather their strength with healthy discord, and that means finding and hiring humans who represent the widest possible spread of perspective and experience. Be like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett: If you’re not spending 5 hours per week learning, you’re being irresponsible Former president Obama perfectly explains why he was so committed to reading during his presidency in a recent New York Times interview (paywall): “At a time when events move so quickly and so much information is transmitted,” he said, reading gave him the ability to occasionally “slow down and get perspective” and “the ability to get in somebody else’s shoes.” These two things, he added, “have been invaluable to me. But what I can say is that they have allowed me to sort of maintain my balance during the course of eight years, because this is a place that comes at you hard and fast and doesn’t let up.”