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 eff… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Michelangelo was asked by the pope about the secret of his genius, particularly how he carved the statue of David, largely considered the masterpiece of all masterpieces. His answer was: Its simple. I just remove everything that is not David." - Taleb in Antifragile

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.

This absence of literary culture is actually a marker of future blindness because it is usually accompanied by a denigration of history, a byproduct of unconditional neomania. Outside of the niche and isolated genre of science fiction, literature is about the past. We do not learn physics or biology from medieval textbooks, but we still read Homer, Plato, or the very modern Shakespeare.