It’s the idea that hit me like a cymbal crash during a Danny Jones podcast this morning. The guest? An historian and amateur archaeologist, Matthew LaCroix—a man without the formal training (or programmed “ought-tos”) of professional archeologists—out-thinking and out-discovering schooled archeologists precisely because he never learned, or never cared, what wasn’t “allowed.” It’s the paradox: Not knowing “the rules” can make you the most original thinker in the room.
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