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I first encountered The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb while doing my MSc in France in 2014, listening to it as an audiobook.

I hated the book. And I hated Nassim Taleb.

Seventeen years later, he became the single most influential author in my life. His work changed the way I think—and changed my life.

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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

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“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

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“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Peter Drucker, Essential Drucker

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“If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of (strongly built) typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad'. Upon examination, this may be less interesting a concept than it appears at first: Such probability is ridiculously low. But let us carry the reasoning one step beyond. Now that we have found that hero among monkeys, would any reader invest his life's savings on a bet that the monkey would write the 'Odyssey' next?”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

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