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#1

“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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#2

“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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#3

“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: femininity, liars, manipulation, men-and-women, narcissism, narcissists, politicians, politics, preachers, sociopathology, sociopaths, women

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#4

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: compromise, love, manipulation, marriage, marriage-advice, narcissism, narcissists, passive-aggressive, passive-aggressiveness, real-love, relationships, sacrifice, true-love

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#5

“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: art, autism, details, intuition, nerd, nerdiness, nerds, poetry, wisdom, wisdom-vs-nerds

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#6

“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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#7

“The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving up on reading altogether - when you are limited to the school material and you get bored, you have a tendency to give up and do nothing or play hooky out of discouragement.

The trick is to be bored with a specific book, rather than with the act of reading. So the number of the pages absorbed could grow faster than otherwise. And you find gold, so to speak, effortlessly, just as in rational but undirected trial-and-error-based research. It is exactly like options, trial and error, not getting stuck, bifurcating when necessary but keeping a sense of broad freedom and opportunism.

Trial and error is freedom.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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#8

“You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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#9

“The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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#10

“Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: baby-boomers, enlightenment, meditation, narcissism, self-absorption, self-improvement, self-realization

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#11

“Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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#12

“My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: business-ethics, corruption, court-system, courts, ethical-behaviour, ethics, governement, government, law, law-and-order, lawyers, modern-life, modern-society, modernity, modernity-is-a-sickness, the-supreme-court

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#13

“When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: anger, anger-management, civics, envy, internet, playerhaters, the-internet

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#14

“I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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#15

“Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

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#16

“Further, my characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain why he made the mistake rather than moving on. These types often consider themselves the “victims” of some large plot, a bad boss, or bad weather. Finally, a thought. He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors—though never the same error more than once—is more reliable than someone who has never made any.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder

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#17

“He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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#18

“If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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#19

“Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: employment, slavery

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#20

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything,”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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#21

“You know you have influence when people start noticing your absence more than the presence of others.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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#22

“Steve Jobs: “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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#23

“that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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#24

“We grossly overestimate the length of the effect of misfortune on our lives. You think that the loss of your fortune or current position will be devastating, but you are probably wrong. More likely, you will adapt to anything, as you probably did after past misfortunes.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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#25

“You do not want to win an argument. You want to win.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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#26

“Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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#27

“Entrepreneurs are heroes in our society. They fail for the rest of us.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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#28

“Beware of the person who gives advice, telling you that a certain action on your part is “good for you” while it is also good for him, while the harm to you doesn’t directly affect him.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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#29

“What is the greatest wonder in the world?
That, every single day, people die,
Yet the living think they are immortal.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Mahabharata

tags: death

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#30

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

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