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)
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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
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A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
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What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
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Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone
Nassim Nicholas TalebMots clés 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
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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
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The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
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My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
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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.
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