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What revolutionary truth do you know that no one else agrees with? What discovery could you make if you challenged assumptions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Thiel believes in secrets\u2014truths that no one else has. He contends that there’s more knowledge to be discovered and new opportunities to be explored. But, to find them, we have to believe they exist and look for them. We have to challenge assumptions in order to discover something new. The place to start, he contends, is with the contrarian question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s how Peter Thiel’s contrarian question can help you uncover the secret to success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Peter Thiel’s Contrarian Question<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Zero to One<\/a><\/em> deals with Peter Thiel’s contrarian question: \u201cWhat revolutionary truth do you know that no one else agrees with?\u201d If you know something, especially something important, that nobody else does, then by definition, you have a secret. You need a secret to answer Thiel\u2019s question, so he spends a chapter in Zero to One<\/em> discussing secrets and how to find them. Challenging assumptions is a key aspect of discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Uncover Secrets<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Thiel\u2019s favorite tactic to discover secrets is to look where nobody else is looking. Whether in business, science, or some other field, what questions do people in the mainstream refuse to address or investigate?<\/strong> Or what have they simply overlooked?  Thiel calls this the \u201chuman approach\u201d to discovering secrets, as opposed to the \u201cnatural approach,\u201d which involves making comprehensive observations and analyzing the data to find new trends or new phenomena. He points out that often, these two methods lead to the same discoveries, but the human approach is typically more efficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He offers the dot-com and housing bubbles as an example of this principle: These bubbles were created by inefficiencies in the market, but no one was willing to question the efficiency of the market at setting prices. During those bubbles, you could have taken the natural approach and determined through careful analysis that first internet companies and then real estate was over-valued. But simply challenging assumptions that no mainstream expert dared to challenge would have led you to the same conclusion with less analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Importance of Believing in Secrets<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Of course, to discover secrets, you first have to believe that they exist. If you don\u2019t believe there are revolutionary discoveries yet to be made and profitable new businesses to be built, then you won\u2019t see these opportunities because you\u2019re not looking for them. Thiel stresses the importance of this because in his view, most of society doesn\u2019t believe in secrets anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To explain his reasoning, Thiel contrasts secrets with conventions and mysteries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Secrets are knowable, but it takes effort and intelligence to discover them. Finding secrets is rewarding, both because it’s challenging and because secrets are valuable. <\/li>
  • Conventions are, by definition, widely known. Sometimes they\u2019re useful, but they don\u2019t give you an advantage.<\/li>
  • Mysteries, in the sense that Thiel uses the term, are unknowable. They\u2019re not useful in practice because they\u2019re impossible to figure out.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    According to Thiel, today most people tend to assume that all the questions in the world are either insoluble or have already been solved: There are no secrets left. Everything is either a mystery or a convention. He attributes this societal belief to the cumulative effect of four trends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. In the school system, we teach children to solve problems by following prescribed instructions, not by coming up with their own original solutions.<\/li>
    2. We tend to seek the approval of our peers, and conventions provide intellectual safety in this regard. No one will write you off as a weirdo if you stick to believing only what everyone knows is true.<\/li>
    3. The people with the most wealth want to preserve the status quo because they\u2019re comfortable with their situation. As such, they have no motivation to search for new discoveries.<\/li>
    4. It\u2019s hard to believe that there are new discoveries left to be made, because, with the globalization of the economy, there are a staggering number of people working in almost every industry. With so many other people out there, it\u2019s easy to think that someone<\/em> has already discovered anything that\u2019s worth discovering.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      As an example of this mentality carried to the extreme, Thiel discusses the case of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous \u201cunabomber.\u201d According to the manifesto that Kaczynski published, modern life was meaningless because personal fulfillment comes from solving meaningful problems and every problem worth solving had already been solved. Kaczynski\u2019s solution to this problem was to destroy civilization as we know it, plunging the survivors back to the Stone Age so that they could start over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Thiel contends that Kaczynski\u2014and most of modern society\u2014is wrong. There are still secrets left to be discovered. We haven\u2019t found cures yet for cancer, dementia, or old age. We don\u2019t really even have a good scientific understanding of nutrition. We need new sources of sustainable energy and better means of transportation. There are plenty of problems that are worth solving, and are likely possible to solve, but haven\u2019t been solved yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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