{"id":5924,"date":"2014-09-15T04:25:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T20:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2014-09-15T04:25:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T20:25:56","slug":"the-work-required-to-have-an-opinion-farnam-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/15\/the-work-required-to-have-an-opinion-farnam-street\/","title":{"rendered":"The Work Required To Have An Opinion &#124; Farnam Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Li Lu recently reminded me that Charlie Munger used to say something along the lines of \u201cYou\u2019re not entitled to take a view, unless and until you can argue better against that view than the smartest guy who holds that opposite view. If you can argue better than the smartest person who holds the opposite view, that is when you are entitled to hold a certain view.\u201d<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farnamstreetblog.com\/2013\/04\/the-work-required-to-have-an-opinion\/\">The Work Required To Have An Opinion | Farnam Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li Lu recently reminded me that Charlie Munger used to say something along the lines of \u201cYou\u2019re not entitled to take a view, unless and until you can argue better against that view than the smartest guy who holds that opposite view. If you can argue better than the smartest person who holds the opposite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/15\/the-work-required-to-have-an-opinion-farnam-street\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Work Required To Have An Opinion &#124; Farnam Street&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}