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• Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

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  May, Causes, Belief

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.203, Random House

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• We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

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  Future, Mind, News

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.157, Random House

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• To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

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  Philosopher, Walking

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.81, Random House

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• If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

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  Guerra, Lucha, Dura

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.46, Random House

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• A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

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  Country, Risk, Assets

  "Chaos Is Good for You". Interview with Linda Geddes, www.slate.com. December 2, 2012.

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• Podría ser útil poder predecir la guerra. Pero la tensión no conduce necesariamente a la guerra, sino a menudo a la paz y al desenlace.

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  War, Doe, Might

  "The new sage of Wall Street" by Edward Helmore, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2008.

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• The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

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  Fear, Men, Modern

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.96, Random House

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• The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

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  Opposites, Gains, Robust

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

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  Being Yourself, Jobs, School

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1755, Random House

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• There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and a random one. In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.

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  Taken, Differences, Variables

  "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007.

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• The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.

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  People, House, Association

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.237, Random House

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• Information is bad for knowledge.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Information

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.142, Random House

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• Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

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  Smart, Thinking, Dumb

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.4, Random House

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• For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

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  Philosophical, Leisure, Insight

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.84, Random House

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• Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

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  Effort, Doe, Information

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.49, Random House

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• He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

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  Errors, Made, Plenty

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.111, Random House

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• Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

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• We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

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  Business, Want, Derivatives

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• Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

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  Procrastination, Soul, Entrapment

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Sep 27, 2010

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• Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

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  Mistake, Used, Situation

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

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  Business, Punishment, Want

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• Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

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  Book, Reading, Unread Books

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.777, Random House

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• I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

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  Common Sense, Age, Collections

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• Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

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  Adversity, Fate, Self

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• I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

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  School, Daydreaming, Hated

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