Someone from your social class who becomes poor affects you more than thousands of starving ones outside of it. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.

Just as an animal could have survived because its sample path was lucky... free of the evolutionary rare event, the "best" operators in a given business can... One vicious attribute is that the longer these... can go without encountering the rare event, the more vulnerable they will be to it. ...[S]hould one extend time to infinity, then by , that event will happen with certainty—the species will be wiped out! For evolution means fitness to... only one time series, not the average of all possible environments.

Trying to explain the Mediterranean temperament to Slavs: Meds know how to have fun without necessarily getting drunk.