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Thinking in bets starts with recognizing that there are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck. Learning to recognize the difference between the two is what thinking in bets is all
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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
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“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Airman's Odyssey
― Airman's Odyssey
“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
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“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― Back to Methuselah
― Back to Methuselah
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
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