You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.
Interpretation
Trusting your own judgment is essential, regardless of external validation.
This quote emphasizes the importance of trusting one's own instincts and taste, even in the face of research and testing that may suggest otherwise. Brian Grazer suggests that personal intuition should take precedence over external opinions or data when it comes to assessing the quality of something. It speaks to the value of self-confidence and authenticity in decision-making.
In practice
During a motivational speech about the importance of self-belief and creativity.
Curiosity at work isn't a matter of style. It's much more powerful than that. If you're the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you're laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group. You're letting people know that the boss is willing to listen.
Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.
It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.
And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.
Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.
Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.
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