Contrarianism won’t make you rich

There's an idea that I can't borrow from the startup community, the Y-combinator community, that kind of crowd. And that's the contrarianism and doomerism. They can make you seem smart, especially if you're already somewhat intelligent. They can make you seem smart and seem right about things most of the time. But that doesn't make you rich. They won't ever make you rich, and I would say it would ever make you successful. You have to be a little bit delusional and work against the natural entropy of the universe, and the world around you in order to be successful at anything or in any field. And I'm thinking of that right now. As things look very, very bleak, the everywhere you look, there's problems. It's easy for a smart person to predict the failures. It's easy to point your finger and say, "This is going to fail, this is going to collapse, this is going to break." But that's not going to make you rich, and it's not going to make you successful. You have to find a way against the odds to be contrarian, against the contrarians, and find something where you can achieve a success away from failure and be right about that. And the world will reward you. [BLANK_AUDIO]