Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.

Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.

Some people do not know their own interest — just consider addicts, workaholics, people trapped in a bad relationship, people who support large government, the press, book reviewers, or respectable bureaucrats, all of whom for some mysterious reason act against their own interest.

For a free person, the optimal - most opportunistic - route between two points should never be the shortest one.

Half of suckerhood is not realizing that what you don't like might be loved by someone else (hence by you, later), and the reverse.