From the course: Guy Kawasaki on Turning Life Wisdom into Business Success

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Skepticism and what is a source?

Skepticism and what is a source?

- The question is, well what is the source? And I would say you look at places like NPR. You know, they don't have a political agenda. You look at Wikipedia because on Wikipedia there's a natural conflict between both sides of the story and I was on the board of trustees of Wikipedia and to this day it irritates me that teachers say you can't source Wikipedia because Wikipedia anybody can change anything. And while that is true at some level, that Wikipedia is a very even playing field that you can go on and you can change something, you can add something to Wikipedia. You can't go onto Wikipedia and say that the earth is flat and all of a sudden everybody's quoting that and saying oh, the earth is flat, I read it on Wikipedia. You can't got and say well, the sun revolves around the earth and now everybody's saying, yeah, you know that's how it works. Those kind of things would be smacked down in minutes. And so, I think…

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