The alpha person at a gathering of "high status" persons is often, detectably, the waiter. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long. Whenever there is asymmetry in outcomes, the average survival has nothing to do with the median survival.

Most of what they call humility is successfully disguised arrogance.

The very idea of exercise is to gain from antifragility to workout stressors — as we saw, all kinds of exercise are just exploitations of convexity effects.