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“The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in the dissimilar.”
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“People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up”
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“The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.”
― Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
― Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
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