# Brain Food: Going Viral  ## Metadata - Author: [[Shane Parrish (FS)]] - Full Title: Brain Food: Going Viral - Category: #articles - Summary: Admitting mistakes and staying curious help you improve a lot. Success comes from many hours of hard work and having a strong purpose. Asking good questions is more important than knowing all the answers, especially with AI. ## Highlights - If you're willing to recognize your mistakes, you massively tilt the odds in your favor. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kyd5pq9fkznjyssxgpfnkbbd)) - In the age of AI, the questions you ask are more important than the answers you know. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kyd5q22z8nhkj2r0g27502d2)) - Ask anyone how they got really good at what they do, and there is one answer they won't tell you: ... School. They learned it on their own. Not because there was a test to pass, but because they were curious. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kyd5q959wxkgyd82nej6rh86)) - Albert E. N. Gray, [The Common Denominator of Success](https://a4d65a79.click.convertkit-mail4.com/75u6xzq498s8h6nvrpgizhwqxn975hnhngkq/owhkhqhw23lggrbvhr/aHR0cHM6Ly9mcy5ibG9nL2dyZWF0LXRhbGtzL2NvbW1vbi1kZW5vbWluYXRvci1zdWNjZXNzLWFsYmVydC1ncmF5Lw==): *“Why are successful [people] able to do things they don't like to do while failures are not? Because successful [people] have a purpose strong enough to make them form the habit of doing things they don't like to do in order to accomplish the purpose they want to accomplish.**”* ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kyd5r2kxxpjqmt5rqvj9xfpq))