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in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent),

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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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Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

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