“You Can Tell A Lot About A Person By How Quickly They Dismiss Something They Don’t Understand.”

I judge people.

I don’t hide from that. But I’ve got to explain, I judge them by how they operate, not on how they look. (Might have to do with the fact that I work with computers.)

I judge them by how they approach new things. Are they the type to call it stupid and uninteresting because they themselves don’t want to try to understand it at all? Are they the type that holds a belief in their head as true just to know how it’s like to live with that mindset, even though they themselves might have previous thoughts that stand counter to it? Are they the type that paradoxically believes everything and yet believes nothing?

Yeah, I judge people.

You can tell a lot about a person by how quickly they dismiss something they don’t understand.

Falsely yours,
Jason Fried