They will envy you for your success, for your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status — but rarely for your wisdom. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Those who violate a logical rule can only do well if they violate at least one additional logical rule.

Imagine taking a test knowing the answer. While we know that history flows forward, it is difficult to realize that we envision it backward. Why is it so? We will discuss the point in Chapter 11 but here is a possible explanation: Our minds are not quite designed to understand how the world works, but, rather, to get out of trouble rapidly and have progeny. If they were made for us to understand things, then we would have a machine in it that would run the past history as in a VCR, with a correct chronology, and it would slow us down so much that we would have trouble operating. Psychologists call this overestimation of what one knew at the time of the event due to subsequent information the hindsight bias, the “I knew it all along” effect.

You want your enemies to complain about you. The more they complain, the better.