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I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.

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I don't like things that aren't true.

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That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't c…

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If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

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Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

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If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

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Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

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It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

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