Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated — the busier they get, the more active t… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated — the busier they get, the more active they are at other tasks.

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About Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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Alternative Names: Nassim Taleb
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what you learn from the intensity and the focus you had when under the influence of risk stays with you. You may lose the sharpness, but nobody can take away what you’ve learned. This is the principal reason I am now fighting the conventional educational system, made by dweebs for dweebs. Many kids would learn to love mathematics if they had some investment in it, and, more crucially, they would build an instinct to spot its misapplications.

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