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The consulting firm that eventually hired him was forever asking him to exhibit confidence when, in his view, confidence was a sign of fraudulence.
I went through exactly this in my early consulting years. I never understood why it was important to sound confident instead of uncertain when outcomes were indeed uncertain.
And not just that, this fake confidence was rewarded even when in retrospect the opinion seemed imprudent and later proved wrong by fact.
“People’s emotional response to extremely long odds led them to reverse their usual taste for risk, and to become risk seeking when pursuing a long-shot gain and risk avoiding when faced with the extremely remote possibility of loss. (Which is why they bought both lottery tickets and insurance.)”
― The Undoing Project
― The Undoing Project
“There was a reason for this: To acknowledge uncertainty was to admit the possibility of error. The entire profession had arranged itself as if to confirm the wisdom of its decisions.”
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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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Gaurav’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gaurav’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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192 friends
36 books
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551 books
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149 friends
445 books
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35 books
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98 friends
87 books
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23 books
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31 books
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