> It's a hard feeling to get over, but every time I feel it, I think about Brazil. He could confidently state something that's objectively not true and would double down if you questioned him about it. I know because this happened to me. I doubted things I knew to be true because he was that confident and that persuasive. I'll never know what was going on inside his head, but I don't think he spent a moment questioning himself.
That sounds exactly like Steve Jobs.
His RDF was amazing.
I used to say that he could not only convince a cartographer that the world was flat, but sell tickets to them for a boat ride to the edge.
It sounds like a cool super power but it sounds like an absolute curse as well. For one, there are people that are relatively unaffected by your RDF, and those people will always see you as a fraud (which you are, if you're doubling down on falsehoods). For two, if you can convince yourself and those around you of anything/everything, it diminishes your innate ability to know what is right. After all, if you can convince yourself of anything, "right" is whatever is convenient at the time. Sounds kind of miserable.
That sounds exactly like Steve Jobs.
His RDF was amazing.
I used to say that he could not only convince a cartographer that the world was flat, but sell tickets to them for a boat ride to the edge.