People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels -…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
178 citations
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 (2016). Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile, p.1730, Random House
Humanity Reading
11

More Author Quotes

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better. ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). Antifragile: Things That Gain from Diso … ▶
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most. ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Ran … ▶
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, p.33, Random Hou … ▶
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not … ▶
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 H … ▶

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 (2016). Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile, p.1730, Random House

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes