Jordi Alexander(@gametheorizing):I'm not sure if @naval and I are as directly at odds on this. ->There is the single-player game. Everyone can learn to self-develop, enhance their talents, and be an ideal version of themselves. ->Then there is the adversarial, more brutal efficiency game of societal impact. You can't just move at your own pace there. In this game, the brutal truth is without a natural headstart in a category you will never be able to reach your society's frontier.

2026.10.04 06:48

I'm not sure if @naval and I are as directly at odds on this. ->There is the single-player game. Everyone can learn to self-develop, enhance their talents, and be an ideal version of themselves. ->Then there is the adversarial, more brutal efficiency game of societal impact. You can't just move at your own pace there. In this game, the brutal truth is without a natural headstart in a category you will never be able to reach your society's frontier.

king Maverick 🎥@Aubreyjay01

2026.10.04 04:58

Jordi Alexander doesn't believe everyone has a special talent. He estimates only 10–15% of people can realistically push themselves to make a meaningful impact. That puts him directly at odds with Naval’s philosophy that everyone has a unique talent. Is Jordi being brutally honest about human potential? But if you tell people that most of them simply don’t have what it takes, does that create realism... or kill the belief that they can become something greater?