Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and l…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, p.31, Random House
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Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment. ✨ FaceBook post byNassim Nicholas Taleb from Sep 27, 2010
It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly … ▶
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, p.33, Random House
If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.' ✨ Nassim Nicholas … ▶

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, p.31, Random House

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