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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and a random one. In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.
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You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
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The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.
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Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.
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The fool generalizes the particular the nerd particularizes the general some do both and the wise does neither
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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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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit
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People focus on role models it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
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By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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