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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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