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BONUS - 5 More Text-Only Taleb Quotes that you enjoyed: - "It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness." - "It is said that the bes… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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- "It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness."
- "It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best."
- "A prostitute who sells her body (temporarily) is vastly more honorable than someone who sells his opinion for promotion or job tenure."
- "When people call you intelligent it is almost always because they agree with you."
- "The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."
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About Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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To understand the future, you do not need technoautistic jargon, obsession with “killer apps,” these sort of things. You just need the following: some respect for the past, some curiosity about the historical record, a hunger for the wisdom of the elders, and a grasp of the notion of “heuristics,” these often unwritten rules of thumb that are so determining of survival. In other words, you will be forced to give weight to things that have been around, things that have survived.
The classical man’s worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man’s worst fear is just death.
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