When someone is critical about the present, mainstream ideas and accepted conventions they’ll usually start asking questions.
These questions allows somebody to find solutions outside of the norm, or thinking outside of the box, which can lead to vertical progression.
Reference
Thiel, Peter, and Blake Masters. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Virgin Books, 2014.
Highlights or timestamps
And you can only do that if you’re able to view the present critically. In this way, as a startup founder, you have to be able to predict the future.
— ^9d647a from Zero to One