[Thread] Nassim Taleb's 17 best one-line wisdom.
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1. The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

2. Atheists are just modern versions of religious fundamentalists: they both take religion too literally

3. Ideas come and go, stories stay.

4. Too many people think in labels.

5. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

6. Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk

7. If you worry about your reputation you don't deserve to have one.

8. The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know.

9. Your duty is to scream those truths that one should shout but that are merely whispered.

10. It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness

11. It takes five years to learn how to make money; and twenty-five to learn how to not lose it.

12. Complaints don't deliver complaints, they mostly reveal your weakness.

13. Scars signal skin in the game.

14. It is capitalism that pulled billions out of poverty. Not vapid virtue signalling.

15. Courage is the only virtue you can't fake.

16. When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people's opinion, freer, more real.

17. Virtue is what you do when nobody is looking. The rest is marketing.

Bonus: Being nice counts the most when you are nice to people ignored by others.

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