Sublime

Charlie Munger, the investor and partner of Warren Buffett, frequently quotes a “rustic” who says, “I wish I knew where I was going to die, and then I’d never go there.”60 This approach is called a premortem.

Amos liked to say that if you are asked to do anything—go to a party, give a speech, lift a finger—you should never answer right away, even if you are sure that you want to do it.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

Benjamin Franklin, who knew a few things about innovation himself, said it best: “Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of

Logic be damned: everybody knows that the more syllables you slap onto a word, the smarter you sound.

Diogenes Laërtius would write that what made Socrates so wise was that “he knew nothing except just the fact of his ignorance.” Better still, he was aware of what he did not know and was always willing to be proven wrong.

Nadolny, Sten. The Discovery of Slowness. Revised edition. Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2003.

As Saint Augustine famously said, “To err is human; to persist in error is diabolical.”[1]

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something. —Unknown author; often attributed to Plato