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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.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Fat Tony rule #6 - A company should eat its own cooking…

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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. - Karl Popper

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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness. - Nassim Taleb

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“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.” ― Nassim Taleb

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“it is only when you don’t care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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To bankrupt a fool, give him information. - Nassim Taleb

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Comfort is a drug. Once you get used to it, it becomes addictive. Give a weak person consistent stimulation, good food, cheap entertainment, and they’ll throw their ambitions out of the window. The comfort zone is where dreams go to die.

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“The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference” ― Nassim Taleb

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“Men destroy each other during war, themselves during peacetime.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“So just as Stoicism is the domestication, not the elimination, of emotions, so is the barbell a domestication, not the elimination, of uncertainty.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Statistical Model vs. Reality…

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“The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“for Mother Nature, opinions and predictions don’t count; surviving is what matters.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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. - Nassim Taleb

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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. - Michel de Montaigne

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🗣️| Quotes & Aphorisms Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking. - Nassim Taleb

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@PicoPaco17 @nntaleb That guy’s plane crashed the second he aborted the coup.

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Don’t complain too loud about wrongs done you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies. - Nassim Taleb

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“You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

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“What I learned on my own I still Remember.” - Nassim Taleb

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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ― Cicero

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🗣️ QUOTE 🗣️ "A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading." - Nassim Taleb

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You don’t become completely free by just avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master. - Nassim Taleb, Bed of Procrustes

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No rumor is true until officially denied - @nntaleb

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“The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Esse quam videri - "To be, rather than to seem (to be)” - Cicero

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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most. - Nassim Taleb

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Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking. - Nassim Taleb

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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ― Cicero

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@nntaleb Can we tempt you to join for Fat Tony's for a Q&A one evening?

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It's not the lack of intelligence, it's the lack of focus that is stopping you. - Richard Feynman

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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. - Michel de Montaigne

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F*ck you money is an attitude, not an amount in the bank...

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We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. Michel de Montaigne

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The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present. - Cicero

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Fat Tony’s of the world #8 …

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Modernity...

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“Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.” - Nassim Taleb

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An unjust peace is better than a just war. ― Cicero

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For I have a single definition of success: you look in the mirror every evening, and wonder if you disappoint the person you were at 18, right before the age when people start getting corrupted by life. - Nassim Taleb, Bed of Procrustes

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Joe Norman ( @normonics ) will be joining us for a LIVE Q&A on Friday 19th March Midnight GMT / 7pm EST / 4pm PCT. Come say hi to Joe and ask him your questions on Complexity, Homesteading, and more... Invite link: