It seems that it is the most unsuccessful people who give the most advice, particularly for writing and financial matters. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you can't put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else.

Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, noble, elegant, robust, and heroic life.

The antifragile loves randomness and uncertainty, which also means — crucially — a love of errors, a certain class of errors. Antifragility has a singular property of allowing us to deal with the unknown, to do things without understanding them — and do them well. Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.