They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: wisdom intelligence clarity-of-thought truths iq
The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: einstein academia freud institutions darwin marxism modern-life modernity academics
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: wisdom empathy intuition prophet empaths
What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: dating internet men-and-women dating-advice modern-life modernity bragging
Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: meditation self-improvement self-realization enlightenment self-absorption narcissism baby-boomers
true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: humility humbleness narcissism narcissists hollywood-culture true-humility
Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: economics bankers recession finance experts recessions banking expertise
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: science art mind economics intellect expertise economists
My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: humor wisdom nerd nerds sense-of-humor nerdiness wisdom-vs-nerds
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: wit sophistication internet nerd nerds irony post-modernism autism nerdiness post-ironic post-modern nerdery wisdom-vs-nerds intellectual-sophistication reddit
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