Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
Only the autodidacts are free. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Only the autodidacts are free.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, po… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, po…
Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
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