A young Cape Verde fan shows love to his team after they gave their everything and came close to winning against the reigning champions Argentina in the FIFA World Cup.
Nassim Taleb: the richest man in the Roman Empire woke up every morning pretending he was poor.
Seneca had more to lose than to gain from his wealth - so he rehearsed losing it. Every so often he'd live on bread and water as if shipwrecked, just to make the downside familiar and harmless.
That's the whole game, Taleb says: arrange your life so you have far more upside than downside - then randomness stops scaring you.
"Make more when you're right than you lose when you're wrong - that's antifragile."
"Always keep more upside than downside from random events."
"The Stoics aren't unmoved by the world - only by bad events."
~70 min, free. the oldest trick for surviving a world you can't predict ↓
This month and every month make sure you take care of your mental health.
Every morning I wake up and tell myself it’s going to be a great day.
Then I hit the gym, even 15 or 20 minutes if that’s all I have, because I know if I do that, I’ve already accomplished something before the day really starts.
Watch what you put in your brain too.
If you fill it with garbage, it starts reacting to the world through a garbage prism.
Practice gratitude by telling the people around you that you love them.
Getting two or three real things done at work.
And every so often — disappear for three days.
Read a book, go to a spa or just stare at a wall.
You have to take care of the mind. Nobody else is going to do it for you.
Funny. I thought it was morally wrong for Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth more than $800 billion, to eliminate humanitarian aid that will cause 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet to die in the next 4 years.