Here& #39;s a fascinating answer to "Is Peter Thiel Very Smart?" from @RyanHoliday.

I love this line: “The things that I think I’m right about other people are in some sense not even wrong about, because they’re not thinking about them.”

Here are my favorite quotes.

This is a beautiful way to think about thinking.

“Peter is of two minds on everything. If you were able to open his skull, you would see a number of Mexican standoffs between powerful antagonistic ideas you wouldn’t think could be safely housed in the same brain.”

"Thiel is extremely well-read and again, tends to focus on talking about and thinking about deep, obscure topics rather than superficial, trivial matters."

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"When I mentioned an obscure chapter in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy, Thiel could cite it from memory and discuss at length... Thiel is extremely well-read and again, tends to focus on talking about and thinking about deep, obscure topics rather than superficial matters."