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The first step to thinking clearly is to question what we think we know about the past.” The internet craze of the ‘90s was the biggest bubble since the crash of 1929, and the lessons learned afterward define and distort almost all thinking about technology today. But the distortions caused by bubbles don’t disappear when they pop. “Conventional beliefs only ever appear arbitrary and wrong in retrospect whenever one collapses, we call the old belief a bubble. * Innovation = creating and doing something totally new.ĭON'T BE AFRAID TO ASK CONTRARIAN QUESTIONS. Really and truly do your best to “think differently” and go from “0 to 1” rather than “1 to n”. going from “0 to 1” (doing something that’s never been done before).īottom line? Challenge the status quo.

Thiel spends a great deal of the preface and first chapter putting into perspective the difference between going from “1 to n” (doing more of what's already been done) vs. The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange.” But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. “Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar.

Zero to one book pdf in english free download