I feel anger and frustration when I think that one in ten Americans beyond the age of high school is on some kind of antidepressant, such as Prozac. Indeed, when you go through mood swings, you now ha...
Hume came to warn us against such knowledge, and to stress the need for some rigor in the gathering and interpretation of knowledge
Heroism and the respect it commands is a form of compensation by society for those who take risks for others. And entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity, necessary for growth or even the mere...
Dacă faci o proiecție pe baza trecutului în mod liniar, continui o tendință. Dar posibilele devieri viitoare de la cursul trecutului sunt infinite.
Conduct yourself toward your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves toward you.
By throwing enough words together, some unusual and magical-sounding metaphor is bound to emerge according to the laws of combinatorics.
Beware of the person who gives advice, telling you that a certain action on your part is good for you while it is also good for him, while the harm to you doesn’t directly affect him.
Believe me, it is tough to deal with the social consequences of the appearance of continuous failure. We are social animals; hell is other people.
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
And, talking about radiation, few wonder why, after hundreds of million of years of having our skins exposed to sun rays, we suddenly need so much protection from them—is it that our exposure is more...
American culture encourages the process of failure, unlike the cultures of Europe and Asia where failure is met with stigma and embarrassment. America’s specialty is to take these small risks for the...
Alexander said that it was preferable to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.
After things got bad for him, they somehow recovered by some invisible hand, and he was led to believe that it was his intrinsic property to recover from hardships by running every time into a new opp...
A mild degree of unpredictability in your behavior can help you to protect yourself in situations of conflict. Say
A lesson I learned from this ancient culture is the notion of megalopsychon (a term expressed in Aristotle’s ethics), a sense of grandeur that was superseded by the Christian value of humility. There...
The mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.
Scholarship without erudition and natural curiosity can close your mind and lead to the fragmentation of disciplines.
Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.
Como se supone que dijo Stalin (que algo sabía sobre la mortalidad): «Una muerte es una tragedia; un millón de muertes, una estadística». La estadística permanece callada en nuestro interior.
Beware the confusion between correctness and intelligibility. Part of conventional wisdom favors things that can be explained rather instantly and in a nutshell—in many circles it is considered law. H...