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Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Economist
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Mathematician
Philosopher
Statistician
University Teacher
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
Nassim Taleb
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Stoicism
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.
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Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
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Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
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But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
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Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.
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I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.
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