Whenever I hear work ethics I interpret inefficient mediocrity).
I’ve had a hard time conveying to intellectuals the intellectual superiority of practice.)
¿Significa esto que todos deberíamos convertirnos en jugadores durante una temporada, aprovechar la amabilidad que la dama de la fortuna muestra con los que empiezan, y luego parar? La respuesta es no...
Your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call positive affect, than on their intensity when they hit. In
You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits
What I was given to study in school I have forgotten; what I decided to read on my own, I still remember.
We know a lot more what is wrong than what is right,
We discussed this dire problem with education and illusions of academic contribution, with Ivy League universities becoming in the eyes of the new Asian and U.S. upper class a status luxury good. Harv...
We are not made to view things as independent from each other. When viewing two events A and B, it is hard not to assume that A causes B, B causes A, or both cause each other. Our bias is immediately...
We are made to follow leaders who can gather people together because the advantages of being in groups trump the disadvantages of being alone. It has been more profitable for us to bind together in th...
Those who do too much somewhere do too little elsewhere
The studious examination of the past in the greatest of detail does not teach you much about the mind of History; it only gives you the illusion of understanding it.
The richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.
The iatrogenics is in the patient, not in the treatment. If the patient is close to death, all speculative treatments should be encouraged—no holds barred. Conversely, if the patient is near healthy,...
That in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit of agitation gives resources to souls and what makes the species prospe...
Social treadmill effect: You get rich, move to rich neighborhoods, then become poor again. To that add the psychological treadmill effect; you get used to wealth and revert to a set point of satisfact...
Positive Black Swans have a necessary first step: you need to be exposed to them. Many people do not realize that they are getting a lucky break in life when they get it. If
People often confuse complex ideas that cannot be simplified into a media-friendly statement as symptomatic of a confused mind.
My characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and...