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Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
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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To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.
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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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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
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You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave you also need to avoid becoming a master.
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Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
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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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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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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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The fool generalizes the particular the nerd particularizes the general some do both and the wise does neither
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Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.
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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
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Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.
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true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others the rest is either shyness or good marketing
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