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Peter Thiel: Asperger's Is an Advantage

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"If you're less sensitive to social cues, then you're less likely to do the same thing as everyone else around you."

Peter Thiel. Fred Prouser / Reuters Peter Thiel — the PayPal founder, Facebook investor, and bestselling author — hates groupthink. He avoids hiring MBAs, since he says they tend to be "high extrovert/low conviction people," a combination of traits that "leads towards extremely herd-like thinking and behavior." Similarly, he says that "people end up behaving more lemming-like" in places like San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, where tons of tech companies are crammed into a .635 square mile area. All that socialization leads to conformity, he argues, preventing people from…

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