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Biography: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is known for his work on risk analysis, probabil... more Biography: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is known for his work on risk analysis, probability, and uncertainty, particularly through his book "The Black Swan." A former trader and academic, Taleb advocates for resilience in complex systems and is a critic of predictive models. His ideas influence economics, finance, and decision-making. less
"The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving myself headaches"
Tags: Personal growth, Mental health, Learning, Education, Focus
"A highly undiversified portfolio exposes you to much greater risk, but it also earns a much higher return"
Tags: Risk, Investment, Finance, Investing, Personal finance
"When you depart from standard probability, you completely lose track of its limits"
Tags: Uncertainty, Limits, Probability, Mathematics, Statistics
"True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others"
Tags: Personal growth, Self-improvement, Self-awareness, Self-discovery, Introspection
"You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept"
Tags: Happiness, Integrity, Life philosophy, Contentment, Values
"The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know"
Tags: Wisdom, Self-awareness, Ignorance, Expertise, Overconfidence
"Randomness is indistinguishable from complicated, undirected effort"
Tags: Philosophy, Effort, Uncertainty, Complexity, Chaos
"I've got some good news for you: you don’t have to buy insurance"
Tags: Finance, Financial advice, Personal finance, Financial freedom, Good news
"What you know is a function of what you have been exposed to"
Tags: Perspective, Growth, Learning, Knowledge, Understanding
"The general principle is that the solution does not have to be in the form of what you see"
Tags: Mindset, Creativity, Perspective, Innovation, Imagination
"Some events, you don't know how they are going to end"
Tags: Life, Future, Uncertainty, Mystery, Unknown
"Wealth does not count, attention counts"
Tags: Mindfulness, Focus, Life philosophy, Consciousness, Wealth
"People don't know about risk, uncertainty, and surety"
Tags: Perception, Confidence, Knowledge, Awareness, Decision making
"You will get the best prediction of the future from the realization that the predictive power of the past has never been good at making future predictions"
Tags: Wisdom, Future, Insight, History, Past
"The more egregious the failure, the more important it is of first-order importance, not second-order importance"
Tags: Failure, Impact, Importance, Significance, Priority
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