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The Contrarian Question: Peter Thiel’s Favorite Interview Tactic

Interviews are mapmaking sessions where the interviewer and interviewee endeavor to understand each other better. In order to do that, they must ask strong, probing questions. Unfortunately, many interviews fall short of their intended purpose.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.
In the book Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel shares an interview question he dubs “The Contrarian Question.” It goes like this:

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

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