There are three types of large corporations: those about to go bankrupt, those that are bankrupt and hide it, those that are bankrupt and don't know … - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I propose that if you want a simple step to a higher form of life, as distant from the animal as you can get, then you may have to denarrate, that is, shut down the television set, minimize time spent reading newspapers, ignore the blogs. Train your reasoning abilities to control your decisions; nudge System 1 (the heuristic or experiential system) out of the important ones. Train yourself to spot the difference between the sensational and the empirical. This insulation from the toxicity of the world will have an additional benefit: it will improve your well-being.

"If you want people to buy a book tell them it's overrated" (Bed of Procrustes) "Buy houses they call overpriced; read books called overrated; invest in markets called irrational; do things you enjoy that they can't explain."

Progress is almost never linear. Ups and downs and bursts.