Gathering the Dots

I'm here to talk about curiosity, about broadening your horizons.

Generalists are people who put as much stock in the breadth of their knowledge as they do in the depth of it.

If intelligence is the ability to connect the dots, the first step is to gather them. That's what curiosity is about.

Find somebody who disagrees with you on everything. Go argue with them as often as you possibly can. Get scrappy. Blood will be drawn. That's how you have to think about it. What this does is it's going to help you define your ideas. When they're challenged you're going to be forced to shape them. You're going to be forced to bag them up.