Best Nassim Nicholas Taleb Wisdom
- My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal Biggest
- Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone Anyone
- true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing Good
- The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books… Bird
- They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding… Avoiding
- The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination Academic
- A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see Blind
- In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations Bribe
- The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death Classical
- What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves. Dating
- Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears Half
- Love without sacrifice is like theft Love
- My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism Aphorism
- The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm,… Best
- I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other… Bush
- If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. Annoy
- Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness. Inspirational
- Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life;… Benefited
- By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! All
- Luck is the grand equalizer. Equalizer
- The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were… Ask
- If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there… Beyond
- Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic… Always Bad
- If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go… Better
- The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the… Control
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