📊 Top 10 Most Liked Posts from @TalebWisdom – April 2025 A recap of your favorite Taleb quotes last month: 🧵👇 1. "Missing a train is only painful if you run after it".

"When comparing salaries of government workers, consider that they have a much, much lower risk of unemployment and layoff than the rest of the population. This employment guarantee is a yuuuge hidden compensation." - @nntaleb

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"Be polite, courteous, and gentle, but ignore comments, praise, and criticism from people you wouldn't hire." - @nntaleb

"Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"To teach someone a real skill, teach him how to take risk & fail. He will never learn this in school. No nonrisktaker can ever teach it. " - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #risk

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"Mathematicians think in proofs, lawyers in constructs, logicians in operators, dancers in movement, artists in impressions, and idiots in labels." - @nntaleb

"The problem with academics is that they really think that nonacademics find them more intelligent than themselves." - @nntaleb

"We ingest probiotics because we don’t eat enough “dirt” anymore." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"The only objective definition of aging is when a person starts to talk about aging." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"To become a philosopher king, start with being a king, not being a philosopher." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Silver Rule (negative golden rule): Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you. Note the difference from the Golden Rule, as the silver one prevents busybodies from attempting to run your life." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game

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"Using quotes by modern psychologists is the bullshitter's imitation of depth. " - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #LindyEffect

"The opposite of "b**llshitter" isn't someone called "truthful" but someone called "arrogant"." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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"And if journalists were really not interested in money they would be writing literary essays." - Nassim Taleb

"Accept the rationality of time, never its fairness and morality." - @nntaleb

"For a nationalist others are like "nonelephant animals". For a localist others are cousins; some are brothers." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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"To illustrate that the "health benefits" of the Mediterranean diet aren’t in the diet: people spend their lives climbing stairs and doing intermittent fasts. " - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Let me be clear about intolerance against intolerance. The rule is that People (say Salafis) whose platform is EXPLICITLY denying democracy (or free speech) should not use democracy (or free speech) to reach political power." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb