🔍 Evening Brief: Part I - Open Minds See First
Why most people don’t miss opportunities — they dismiss them
Evening Folks! I’ve decided to do a 3 part series and I hope you find value in it. If you find value please share it with others. I believe for those who might come across my blog and haven’t yet decided to buy Bitcoin, I hope this inspires you. For those who have already been buying Bitcoin, I hope this challenges you.
Quote of the Day
“The mind is like a parachute — it only works when open.”
People ask me all the time:
“How did you recognize Bitcoin so early?”
They expect some exotic answer.
Some secret insight.
Some galaxy-brain moment.
The truth is simpler — and repeatable:
I wasn’t rigid.
New ideas don’t show up polished and obvious.
They show up awkward, incomplete, and easy to laugh at.
Bitcoin in 2012 was:
Slow
Clunky
Confusing
And widely mocked
Most people didn’t reject it because they studied it.
They rejected it because it didn’t fit their existing mental model.
That’s the cost of rigid thinking.
My training in the United States Navy emphasized something early on:
Certainty feels good. Flexibility survives.
That mindset was later reinforced by Stephen R. Covey in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, especially one line that stuck with me:
Question your paradigm.
Translation:
If your assumptions are wrong, your conclusions don’t matter.
If your paradigm says:
Money must come from banks
Trust must come from institutions
Value must be centrally issued
Then Bitcoin will always look “wrong” — even when it’s working.
Open minds don’t believe everything.
They simply examine before dismissing.
That’s how you see the future early.
Question of the Day
What idea have you already dismissed without fully examining?