Basically this category would include those who think that … - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Basically this category would include those who think that the cure for obesity is to inform people that they should be healthy.

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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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This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can’t know) is the central idea of uncertainty.

It takes a huge investment in introspection to learn that the thirty or more hours spent “studying” the news last month neither had any predictive ability during your activities of that month nor did it impact your current knowledge of the world.

If you want to teach someone a real skill, teach him how to fail. He will never learn it in school.

Basically this category would include those who think that the cure for obesity is to inform people that they should be healthy. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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