Your name will be forgotten. Your words will be forgotten. Your actions will be forgotten.
“You will be forgotten either way. So live in such a manner that, while you remain, you belong to yourself.” Marcus Aurelius
Evlenirsen pişman olursun. Evlenmezsen de pişman olursun. Çocuk yapsan da yapmasan da pişman olursun. Kierkegaard bunu 200 yıl önce şöyle söylemiştir:
"Neyi seçersen seç pişman olursun. Çünkü sorun tercihlerinde değil yaşanmamış bir hayatı romantize etmendir. İnsan her daim gidilmemiş bir yolu cazibeli ve gizemli bulur. Bu yüzden mesele en doğru seçimi yapman değil. Hangi pişmanlıkla yaşayacağını seçip karar vermendir."
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"The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
"Games were created to give nonheroes the illusion of winning. In real life, you don’t know who really won or lost (except too late), but you can tell who is heroic and who is not." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
You're throwing your life away because you have a dopamine addiction
You're addicted to the phone, you can't concentrate on your plans because it's not stimulating enough, and you keep starting and stopping everything year after year
You can change that, and you should
This is the first time I have ever watched full series of the nba finals and it just proved my beliefs, it’s just pure wwe sport, scripted to the max. Low level football leagues have way better competition than this.
Nassim Taleb sat down with Daniel Kahneman - two of the sharpest minds on risk ever - and the takeaway was blunt: stop trying to be smart
Kahneman's prospect theory explains why almost nobody can do what Taleb does
We're wired to hate the steady trickle of small losses his strategy needs - even when one huge win more than pays for all of them
So you structure it the other way: tiny safe bets plus a few wild ones, never the comfortable middle.
"You'd rather be antifragile than intelligent - any time."
"Trial and error is really just trial with small error."
"Make your gains in small bites. Take your losses all at once."
~1 hr, free. two legends on risk, prediction, and how to win without forecasting ↓