The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.
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I am a contrarian.
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.
I mean, I'm not a contrarian.
I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.
I just try to take the best opportunities that I can get.
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
I just said yes to opportunities that came my way.
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
I'm drawn to opportunities that are going to challenge me and cause me to look outside of my own experiences.
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