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Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren’t for hunger; results are meaningless without effort, joy without sadness, convictions without uncertainty, and an ethical life isn’t so when stripped of personal risks.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
I detest the ruthlessness of selection, the inexorable disloyalty of Mother Nature. I detest the notion of improvement thanks to harm to others.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
Further, my characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain why he made the mistake rather than moving on. These types often consider themselves the “victims” of some large plot, a ba... See more
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
With astonishing regularity, greed is seen as something (a) new and (b) curable. A Procrustean bed approach; we cannot change humans as easily as we can build greed-proof systems, and nobody thinks of simple solutions.1
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
For the fragile, shocks bring higher harm as their intensity increases (up to a certain level).
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
All that quality, stability, and reliability are owed to the fragility of the restaurant itself.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
so the competition is necessary?
System 1 is effortless, automatic, associative, rapid, parallel process, opaque (i.e., we are not aware of using it), emotional, concrete, specific, social, and personalized. System 2 is effortful, controlled, deductive, slow, serial, self-aware, neutral, abstract, sets, asocial, and depersonalized.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
2 systems of thinking
George Soros. One of his strengths is that he revises his opinion rather rapidly, without the slightest embarrassment.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
The excess energy released from overreaction to setbacks is what innovates!