Romain

“Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“We do small stuff often enough to learn to get it right, but when it comes to choosing a home, a mortgage, or a job, we don’t get much practice or opportunities to learn. And when it comes to saving for retirement, barring reincarnation we do that exactly once. So Binmore had it backward. Because learning takes practice, we are more likely to get things right at small stakes than at large stakes. This means critics have to decide which argument they want to apply. If learning is crucial, then as the stakes go up, decision-making quality is likely to go down.”
― Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

“It is therefore imperative that you identify your work as both personally interesting and, at the same time, integrally connected to the well-being of others.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance