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Published · transcript-backedReid Hoffman: belief
15 Jan 2020 Conversations with Tyler Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
“I think that Peter’s reading of The Tempest would view the importance of the primacy of the individual, the importance of Prospero and the magician being self-creating, and that the individual is the primary focus of what matters.”
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- 15 Jan 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…How do you and Peter read Shakespeare’s The Tempest differently? Oh, boy. I think, roughly, our different readings of The Tempest would come down to the following. I think that Peter’s reading of The Tempest would view the importance of the primacy of the individual, the importance of Prospero and the magician being self-creating, and that the individual is the primary focus of what matters. My reading of The Tempest would say the individual potential and capability are super important, but that the reading of The Tempest is the importance of starting in this magical place, in this other island, but then rejoining society with the things you’ve learned. And your contribution to the society as an individual is the macro reading of The Tempest. What else from Shakespeare strikes you as especially significant?…
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