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You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Nassim Nicholas Najib Taleb
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The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
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Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
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The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.
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An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows a journalist or consultant the opposite.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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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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Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
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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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Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
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The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.
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The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.
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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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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or incentives for skill.
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