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Skin in the Game

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most pr

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“By definition, what works cannot be irrational; about every single person I know who has chronically failed in business shares that mental block, the failure to realize that if something stupid works (and makes money), it cannot be stupid .”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com

Tagged: What Works, Understanding Rationality

“Avoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com

Tagged: Advice, Charlatans, Educators

“You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com

Tagged: Deep, Reality

“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com

Tagged: Education, Expereince , trial and error, Learning, Epistemology

“What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com

Tagged: Deep, Loss, What We Have

“Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com

Tagged: Bureaucracy