"Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part."
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"...maximize the serendipity around you."
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"What I learned on my own I still remember"
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"When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate."
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"Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups."
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"To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror."
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"Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues."
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"Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler."
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"This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most."
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"People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work."
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"Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world."
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"Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough."
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"Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing."
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"An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message."
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"At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control."
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"You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits."
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"The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history"
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"Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone"
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"The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination"
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"If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt."
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