If your private actions do not generalize, then you cannot have general ideas. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If someone finds fault with everything you say or do, ignore. But there is information from those who differ on the occasion.

I noticed that very intelligent and informed persons were at no advantage over cabdrivers in their predictions, but there was a crucial difference. Cabdrivers did not believe that they understood as much as learned people - really, they were not the experts and they knew it. Nobody knew anything, but elite thinkers thought that they knew more than the rest because they were elite thinkers, and if you're a member of the elite, you automatically know more than the nonelite.

Only the autodidacts are free.