# Shane Parrish - The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article4.6bc1851654a0.png) ## Metadata **Cover**:: https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article4.6bc1851654a0.png **Source**:: #from/readwise **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Shane Parrish]] **Full Title**:: The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [fs.blog](https://fs.blog/great-talks/multidisciplinary-approach-thinking-peter-kaufman/) **Host**:: [[fs.blog]] **Highlighted**:: [[2022-04-05]] **Created**:: [[2022-09-26]] ## Highlights - “Go positive and go first, and be constant in doing it.” - So why is it important to be a multidisciplinary thinker? The answer comes from the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who said, “To understand is to know what to do.” - Every month. And it was six or seven pages long. It was all in layperson’s terms. The person who was trying to get their ideas across would do so using good stories, clear language, and they would never fail to get all their big ideas into the interview. - Filled up three big binders. And for the next six months I went to the coffee shop for an hour or two every morning and I read these. And I read them index fund style, which means I read them all. Explore the delve into. - I would read some arcane subject and, oh my god, I saw, “That’s exactly how this works over here in biology,” or “That’s exactly how this works over here in human nature.” - So I want to tell you what my three buckets are where I derive my models, my multidisciplinary models. See problems from different perspectives and at different levels. - Every interaction you have with another human being is merely mirrored reciprocation. - Number one is simple. Simple transcends genius. - The most powerful force that could be potentially harnessed is dogged incremental constant progress over a very long time frame. - Whenever you interrupt the constant increase above a certain level of threshold, you lose compounding, you’re no longer on the log curve. - That puppy just went all in, didn’t it? Now, did it go all in because it’s our idea that we want an engaged, contributing, all-in new member of our household? It doesn’t even know what our idea is, does it? Why did it just go all in? It was the puppy’s idea! - And your dog says, “Yeah. All you have to do is every single time they come home, you greet them at the door with the biggest unconditional show of attention that they’ve ever gotten in their whole life. And you only have to do it for like fifteen seconds, and then you can go back to doing whatever you were doing before and completely ignore them for the rest of the evening.” - All you have to do, if you want everything in life from everybody else, is first pay attention; listen to them; show them respect; give them meaning, satisfaction, and fulfillment. Convey to them that they matter to you. And show you love them. But you have to go first. - “You know, I know 10 percent of people are going to screw me. That’s okay. If I’m not willing to be vulnerable and expose myself to that 10 percent, I’m going to miss the other 90 percent.” - There’s this great African proverb. It’s the definition of win-win. “If you want to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.” - There’s another proverb, it’s a Turkish proverb. “No road is long with good company.”