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#1

“Despise The Free Lunch”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

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#2

“Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.”
― Robert Greene

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#3

“Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.”
― Robert Greene

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#4

“Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.”
― Robert Greene, The 50th Law: Overcoming Adversity Through Fearlessness

tags: falsehood, objective, potential

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#5

“Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.”
― Robert Greene

tags: delusion, respect

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#6

“In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them -- those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can never focus enough to learn.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

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#7

“No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

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#8

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

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#9

“Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

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#10

“The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

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#11

“We are all in search of feeling more connected to reality—to other people, the times we live in, the natural world, our character, and our own uniqueness. Our culture increasingly tends to separate us from these realities in various ways. We indulge in drugs or alcohol, or engage in dangerous sports or risky behavior, just to wake ourselves up from the sleep of our daily existence and feel a heightened sense of connection to reality. In the end, however, the most satisfying and powerful way to feel this connection is through creative activity. Engaged in the creative process we feel more alive than ever, because we are making something and not merely consuming, Masters of the small reality we create. In doing this work, we are in fact creating ourselves.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

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#12

“Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: charm, enfp-vs-intj, flirting, game, nerd, nerdiness, nerds, seduction

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#13

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

tags: success

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#14

“Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

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#15

“Remember that you are a Black Swan.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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#16

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: addiction, carbohydrates, diabesity, dr-hyman, dr-robert-lustig, labor, laboring-class, sugar, sugar-addiction, sugar-the-bitter-truth, wage, wage-slavery

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#17

“What I learned on my own I still remember”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: academia, discovery, education, intelligence, learning, reading, schooling, thinking, thought

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#18

“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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#19

“Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: art, autism, humor, intelligence, nerd, nerds, sense-of-humor, wisdom, wisdom-vs-nerdiness, wit

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#20

“People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: celebrities, celebrity, celebrity-culture, modern-values, role-model, role-models, sports, sportsman, sportsmanship, values

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#21

“To bankrupt a fool, give him information.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: information

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#22

“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 false patterns)”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: clarity-of-thought, intelligence, iq, truths, wisdom

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#23

“What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: bragging, dating, dating-advice, internet, men-and-women, modern-life, modernity

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#24

“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, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: intelligence, modern-values, priorities, truths, values, wealth-and-virtues, wisdom

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#25

“true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: hollywood-culture, humbleness, humility, narcissism, narcissists, true-humility

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#26

“As a matter of fact, your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call "positive effect", then on their intensity when they hit. In other words, good news is good news first. How good matters rather little. So to have a pleasant life you should spread those small effects across time as evenly as possible. Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news. The same is property in reverse applies to our unhappiness. It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period, rather than have it spread out over a long time.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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#27

“The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: death, evangelism, fear, modern, modern-life, modern-values, modernity, modernity-is-sickness, narcissism, religion, values

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#28

“Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: internet, internet-addiction, modernity-is-a-sickness, technology, technology-addiction, technology-enchantment

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#29

“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 is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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#30

“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 wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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