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The English language confirms his view with just three dedicated smell words: stinky, fragrant, and musty. Everything else is a synonym (aromatic, foul), a very loose metaphor (decadent, unctuous), a loan from another sense (sweet, spicy), or the name of a source (rose, lemon). Of the five Aristotelian senses, four have vast and specific lexicons.

Frustration is not a sign you are not learning, but ease is.

The Black Swan, the “Ludic Fallacy” refers to the misapplication of Stable Environment rules to an Unstable Environment. The word “Ludic” comes from the Latin word ludus, meaning “game,” as people falsely assume that the same strategies used to calculate probability within a game can be used in the real world.

means nearly 80% of unskilled students were fairly good at estimating their real ability – a far cry from the idea put forth by Dunning and Kruger that the unskilled consistently overestimate their skills.

the purpose of learning isn’t to affirm our beliefs; it’s to evolve our beliefs.

I have to know that you know that I know that you know I am rational.

Odors, by contrast, “don’t carry meaning until you associate them with experiences,” Caprio says.

The only way to present what is conceivable but not representable is abstraction.

Taste is reflexive and innate, while smell is not.