On: Feynman’s Breakthrough: Disregard Others

[SuoDuanDao]

Warran Buffet is well known for his 'insulate yourself from public opinion' quote. It appears to me that disregarding the mainstream is necessary to be an outlier in any field. The rub might be though, that outliers lie on both sides of the bell curve.

[bostik → SuoDuanDao]

This isn't that different from Einstein's take: "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

Keeping one's eyes open to contradictory/heretic/... evidence seems to be a common trait among the giants.