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Confidence to be different — without fearing the wrong answer
💡 Interest requires the confidence to voice unusual views and accept being occasionally wrong.
Being interesting requires a kind of courage: the willingness to stand slightly apart from consensus. De Bono notes that fear of looking foolish keeps most people tethered to safe, ordinary responses. The interesting person accepts the small social risk of offering an unusual view.
This isn't about being contrarian for its own sake — an equally boring trap. It's about having enough security in yourself that you don't need the reassurance of always agreeing or always being right. Confidence lets you float an idea, laugh if it flops, and move on.
De Bono reassures readers that this confidence grows with practice. Each time you venture an original thought and survive, it gets easier. The freedom to be occasionally wrong is precisely the freedom that lets interesting ideas emerge.
Source: How To Be More Interesting — Edward De Bono