Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I once procrastinated and kept delaying a spinal cord operation as a response to a back injury — and was completely cured of the back problem after a hiking vacation in the Alps, followed by weight-lifting sessions. These psychologists and economists want me to kill my naturalistic instinct (the inner b****t detector) that allowed me to delay the elective operation and minimize the risks — an insult to the antifragility of our bodies.

Most of what they call humility is successfully disguised arrogance.

Never buy a product that the owner of the company that makes it doesn't use, or, in the case of, say, medication, wouldn't contingently use.