Just completed reading Bed of Procrustes, by @nntaleb.
Here are my most thought-provoking aphorisms from the entire collection:
(Part 1/2)
1) The test of originality of an idea is not the absence of one single predecessor, but the presence of multiple but incompatible ones.
Here are my most thought-provoking aphorisms from the entire collection:
(Part 1/2)
1) The test of originality of an idea is not the absence of one single predecessor, but the presence of multiple but incompatible ones.
2) Your brain is the most intelligent when you don't instruct it what to do -something people who take showers discover on occasion.
3) Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
(@prvkhvr something you were talking about yesterday)
(@prvkhvr something you were talking about yesterday)
4) When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
5) The ultimate freedom lies in not having to explain why you did something.
6) The opposite of success isn't a failure, it's name-dropping.
7) Karl Marx, a visionary, figure out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
8) In real life exams, someone gives you the answer and you have to figure out the best corresponding question.
9) In summary, modernity replaced the process with the result and the relational with the transactional.
10) Life is about the early detection of the reversal point, beyond which your belongings start owning you.
11) It is much less dangerous to think like a man of action than to act like a man of thought.
12) Regular minds find similarities in stories, finer minds detect differences.
Part 2/2 will be posted tomorrow
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