It's easier to do a transcendent synthesis of something contained inside yourself.

· Bits and Bobs 9/30/24

That's why absorbing disconfirming evidence, steelmanning others' positions, leaning into your contradictions is the way to finding game-changing ideas.

Take them in yourself and allow the synthesis to blossom.

Instead of seeing a team member sharing disconfirming evidence as a "they" that you want to figure out how to deal with, see them as a "we" that needs to absorb the idea to synthesize the right thing out of it.

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