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There was only one way I was going to survive this night, and that was by fundamentally changing how I thought about it. Rationality was pointless in a situation like this. Delusional confidence was the only approach that made sense.
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. —Leo Tolstoy, 1897”
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“I’m a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
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