Greg reads Jiang's continuity thesis as stronger once it explains why apparent civilizational or ethnic divisions disappear at elite levels: the shared ideology rewards fearlessness, extreme risk-taking, and indifference to ordinary judgment.
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Risk Taking
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The third requirement is risk-taking: principals and a new generation of educators must be empowered to try ideas, most of which will fail, until local formulas emerge.
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"otherwise otherwise what why are you doing this yeah it's so interesting the first collection of names you mentioned a lot of people would..."
"these people lose a billion dollars in a day and they don't actually become homeless they just go on to the next project there's..."
"...in China. And third is basically to create a culture of risk -taking. To basically empower principals to try new things. And most of..."
"...resilience, how how my child ever learned empathy, independence, you know, risk taking creativity, imagination, like like. And so I was very fortunate to..."
"...I mean, the innovation that goes on there, the sort of risk -taking, the sort of continuous debate that goes in the country, I..."
"...he is a true God, he will reward you for your risk -taking, right? He said the fruit will kill you as a test...."
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