Intellectual Openness & Mental Models for Success with David Perell
This week’s guest is David Perell, a creator, a writer, and a teacher of his massively successful online writing course called Write of Passage. The success of his course gave me inspiration for my own course, and gives me fundamental optimism about the future of education.
David and I have been friends for years, so this is less of an interview and more what it’s like to hang out with us in person...and I’ll let you decide if that’s a good thing or not.
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Favorite Quotes:
“If you want to surround yourself with people who challenge you it's about not getting offended. Because all of these people will offend you. They will say things that will hurt you, they will have ideas that have hard truths, and they will do things that bother you.” - David Perell
“I look for extreme intellectual openness, openness to ideas, experience, and adventure.” - David Perell
“Have a style that is unique but then be prolific within that style.” - David Perell
“My heroes tend to be people who synthesize information in bizarre and peculiar ways. I surround myself with people who really have nutty ways of looking at the world. I love the people who come out of the left field with the way that they think, so they're always challenging and surprising me.” - David Perell