The author says there are unwritten principles beneath everything, and these principles move people along like a current:
You spend years trying to learn new stuff but then look back and realize that maybe like 10 big ideas truly changed how you think and drive most of what you believe.
This is related to how we tend to like music of the era we grew up in, and think older music is boring, and newer music is inferior. Or the psychological principle that our first offer anchors a number, for some reason, into the recipient’s heads. Our reality is shaped by a few core ideas, which frame the way we think of everything else.
Read the list here.
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