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the unguarded faith that the world hasn't earned, which sometimes the world quietly rises to meet.
means the quality of being inexperienced, trusting, or unworldly — a lack of the wariness that experience usually installs.
from From French naïveté, from naïf 'natural, unaffected,' which traces back to Latin nativus 'native, innate, natural' — the same root that gives us 'native' and 'nascent,' all branching from nasci, 'to be born.' So buried in the word is the idea of something unspoiled: a quality you arrive with, before the world teaches you otherwise.
- origin
- From Latin nativus, meaning natural or innate, like birth.
- survival edge
- Optimistic naive investors often beat cynics by simply staying in.
- con fuel
- Trust is the raw material every scam refines into profit.
- creative spark
- Beginners try methods experts dismiss as obviously impossible.
- twin faces
- Called wisdom in children, foolishness in everyone older.
for instance
trust in madoff's fund — investors gave $65 billion to bernie madoff's scheme for decades before 2008 discovery