Got it All Figured Out? No, You’re Sunk

Stan McChrystal

09.27.19

Four-star General Stan McChrystal talks about the danger of arrogance and certainty. Keep an open, questioning mind. Thinking you’ve got things all figured out is almost certainly going to lead to disappointment.

Got it All Figured Out? No, You’re Sunk

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Four-star General Stan McChrystal talks about the danger of arrogance and certainty. Keep an open, questioning mind. Thinking you’ve got things all figured out is almost certainly going to lead to disappointment.

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Stan McChrystal

As soon as you think you've got the right answer, you're sunk because that surety, that overconfidence, that arrogance is, in my mind, self-defeating it doesn't mean you should lack confidence in life or lack confidence in yourself or conviction to a cause, but it means that once we think we got it all figured out, we are almost certainly going to be disappointed.
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