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The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit
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We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.
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You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
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Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.
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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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The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.
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The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.
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Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Born:
1960
(age 64)
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.
Known for:
Antifragile (2012)
The Bed of Procrustes (2016)
Dynamic Hedging (1997)
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