New Research Confirms: To Be Smarter and More Successful, Think More Like a Scientist

Allison Rose
Sep 30 2024
10:43 AM

Ask a host of experts how to be smarter, and they'll give you the same counterintuitive answer: acknowledge all the ways you're probably being dumb. Warren Buffett's right-hand man Charlie Munger recommends "trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent." Jeff Bezos famously looks for people who are willing to admit mistakes and learn from them in job interviews.

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