Jeff Bezos: The smartest people change their minds.      [culture / creativity / work life]Why Jeff Bezos doesn’t consider consistency a particularly smart trait: “It’s better, even healthier in fact, to have an idea that contradicts one you had before.” As Walt Whitman said, “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”

Jeff Bezos: The smartest people change their minds.      
[culture / creativity / work life]

Why Jeff Bezos doesn’t consider consistency a particularly smart trait: “It’s better, even healthier in fact, to have an idea that contradicts one you had before.” As Walt Whitman said, “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”