Aerobic fitness is short-lived & calibrates to the aver… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Aerobic fitness is short-lived & calibrates to the average of the distribution. Weightlifting strength lasts much longer, calibrates to the extrema. (Backing out the statistical properties of our ancestral environments.)

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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