我怀疑他们之所以处死苏格拉底,是因为太过清晰的思考是一件非常不讨人喜欢、非常令人陌生、非常违背人性的事。 ========== 随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.)) - Your Highlight at location 78-78 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:29:19 教育只能让聪明人变得比之前聪明一点儿,但却会让傻瓜变得比之前危险很多。 ========== 随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经...
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我怀疑他们之所以处死苏格拉底,是因为太过清晰的思考是一件非常不讨人喜欢、非常令人陌生、非常违背人性的事。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 78-78 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:29:19
教育只能让聪明人变得比之前聪明一点儿,但却会让傻瓜变得比之前危险很多。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 82-82 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:30:41
你的脑子最聪明的时候,是你不告诉它该做什么的时候——人们偶尔会在洗澡时发现这一点。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 88-89 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:31:33
在自然状态下,我们永远不会重复同样的事情;在受到禁锢的状态下(办公室、健身房、上下班路上、体育运动),生活只不过是重复性的疲劳损伤而已,没有任何随机性可言。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 90-90 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:31:38
把别人缺乏常识当做借口,这本身就是缺乏常识的表现。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 138-139 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:35:44
只有当他们开始对你展开人身攻击时,你才算是赢得了一场争论。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 150-151 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:37:52
正是人们表现出来的自相矛盾之处让他们富有魅力。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 153-154 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:38:53
从古罗马的老加图开始,人们一直通过斥责下一代人的“浅薄”、赞扬上一辈人的“价值”来表现自己的成熟。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 157-158 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:39:47
只有当你很容易感到厌倦的时候,缺乏想象力才算是个问题。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 163-164 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:40:59
有些人只有在试图表现得严肃的时候才显得滑稽。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 208-211 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:42:51
无神论(唯物主义)意味着把死去的当成从未出生过。我不会这样想。通过接受神圣这一概念,你可以重新发明宗教。 如果你没法直接(不加分析地)辨认出神圣与凡俗之间的区别,那你永远不会知道宗教意味着什么。你也永远不会理解我们通常所谓的艺术。你没法理解任何东西。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 214-215 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:43:12
还没有被凡俗玷染的传媒就只剩下书籍了,你看到的其他传媒都试图通过广告来操控你。(
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 246-246 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:45:50
要获得彻底的自由,你不仅需要避免成为奴隶,还需要避免成为奴隶主。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 254-256 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:47:30
不要读最近100年写的书,不要吃最近1000年培植的水果,不要喝最近4000年发明的饮料(只喝水跟红酒就够了),不要跟40岁以上的普通人说话。普通人从30岁就开始衰老死亡了。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 260-261 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:49:13
等到你可以长时间什么都不做,什么都不学习,什么都不改进,而又完全没有负罪感时,你就算是变得文明了。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 271-271 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:51:13
人们总喜欢关注“榜样”,其实更应该关注的是“反榜样”—你长大后不想成为什么样的人。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 272-273 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:52:04
对效率的追求,是阻止我们过上充满诗意的、高贵的、优雅的、富有活力的、英雄主义的生活的主要原因。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 277-278 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:53:00
我曾在被称为“丑陋”的地方度过美好时光,也曾在被称为“风景秀丽”的地方度过最无聊的时光。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 278-279 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:53:11
健美当然是力量的表现,但除去自然刺激因素,追求健美的动力往往是内心虚弱的表现。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 280-280 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:53:40
那些不认为雇佣就是系统化的奴役的人,要么是瞎子,要么正被雇佣。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 263-264 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:54:23
罗马时代的奴隶跟今天的雇员之间唯一的不同,就是奴隶用不着奉承主人。(1)
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 257-258 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:54:29
卡尔·马克思发现,要更好地控制一个奴隶,你可以说服他相信他其实是个雇员。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 284-285 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:55:19
20世纪宣告了社会乌托邦的破产,21世纪将会宣告科技乌托邦的破产。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 285-286 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:55:32
建设社会、政治和医疗乌托邦的努力往往以悲剧收场,许多科技和医学发明都来源于战争。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 288-288 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:56:12
在绝大多数争论中,人们似乎都在试图说服对方,但他们其实最多只能说服自己。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 344-345 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:57:39
现代生活会用愚人的方式解释各种行为:现在我们“散步锻炼”,而不是毫无理由地“散步”。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 352-353 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:59:15
人们太过重视因果逻辑,所以如果你在谈话中不时插入一句“为什么”,就可以让最沉默寡言的人变得多嘴多舌。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 371-371 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 01:59:59
让人上瘾的东西里,害处最大的三种是海洛因、碳水化合物和月薪。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 372-373 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 02:00:35
我不知道狮子(或者食人族)会不会为自由放养着长大的人类付更高的价钱。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 375-376 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 02:01:23
科技可以让愚人的生活在所有方面发生退化(甚至陷入危机),同时又让他相信自己的生活正在变得“更有效率”。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 377-377 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 02:01:40
科技和奴役之间的区别在于,奴隶很清楚自己并不自由。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 381-382 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 02:02:17
只有在近代,“努力”才变成一件让人骄傲的事情,而不是一件因为缺乏天赋、才能和气度才不得不做的、可耻的事情。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 383-384 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 02:02:43
他们所谓的“玩”(健身、旅游、体育)看起来更像是工作;他们越是努力,就越会深陷其中。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 398-398 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 02:05:28
任何并非面对面进行的社交活动都会损害健康。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 443-443 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:44:18
天才是指具有非常难以模仿的缺陷的人。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 443-444 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:44:51
对于一般的书,阅读正文,忽略脚注;对于学术派的书,阅读脚注,忽略正文;对于商业方面的书,正文和脚注都可以忽略。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 448-449 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:45:34
我们所谓的“商业书籍”是一个由书店发明出来的概念,专门用来指那些没有深度、没有风格、没有内涵,也没有语言特色的书。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 456-457 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:46:57
习惯读报纸的人面对真正优美的文笔时,就像聋子进了歌剧院:他们或许会喜欢其中的一两处细节,但却在怀疑“这一切究竟是为什么”。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 461-462 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:47:44
为你读过的书撰写评论,远比为你没读过的书撰写评论要难。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 469-470 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:49:00
愚人很重要的特点就是意识不到你不喜欢的东西可能别人喜欢(所以你今后也有可能喜欢),反之亦然。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 516-516 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:49:24
我靠自己学会的东西,到现在还记得。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 525-525 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:50:56
真正的爱是特殊性对普遍性的胜利,也是无条件对有条件的胜利。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 552-553 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:51:19
摩尔定律的补充:人类的群体智慧每10年都会降低一半。(
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 557-558 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:52:12
医学之所以能愚弄人们如此之久,是因为它会把它的成功彰显出来,把它的失误(在现实意义上)埋葬掉。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 562-563 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:52:44
思想清晰是勇气的结果,而不是反过来。(
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 591-592 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:54:28
我们喜欢不完美—恰如其分的不完美,我们会为原创艺术品和充满错误的初始版本付大价钱。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 595-595 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:55:02
才智的吸引力在于既表现出智力,又不惹人生厌。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 596-596 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:55:22
在古典雕塑作品中,男人身材瘦削,女人身材肥腴;在现代摄影作品中,正好相反。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 612-612 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:57:03
生活之美:别人对你做出的最充满善意的举动,或许恰恰是不求回报的。(
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 645-646 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:57:15
反之亦然:别人对你做出的最让你痛苦的举动,或许恰恰是因为关心你。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 615-615 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:57:40
冥想是一种不用伤害别人的自恋方式。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 621-622 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:58:35
要是你朝我撒谎,那就一直撒谎,不要突然讲真话来伤害我。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 626-626 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:59:19
尽量别把那些别无选择的人称为英雄。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 626-627 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 07:59:33
有些人会为了你给予他们的而感激你,有些人会为了你没有给予他们的而怪罪你。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 636-636 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 08:01:00
民族国家:无须犯政治错误的种族隔离。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 683-684 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 08:28:40
如果在两种选择之间摇摆不定,那就两种都别选。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 684-684 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 08:29:21
民族国家喜欢战争,城邦喜欢商业,家庭喜欢稳定,个人喜欢娱乐。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 688-689 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 08:30:06
学者只有在试图一无用处时才能发挥作用(例如在数学和哲学中),而在试图发挥作用时则会很危险。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 694-694 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 08:31:18
我发现,讨厌大政府却喜欢大企业是一件不搭调的事,但反过来则不是。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 720-721 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 08:59:46
那个人抵达旅馆的时候让服务员替他搬行李,后来我看见他在健身房里举重锻炼。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 724-725 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:00:42
他们可以在电子阅读器上读普鲁塔克的著作,但却拒绝用塑封纸杯喝林卓贝斯红酒。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 727-728 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:01:30
脆弱:我们一直在努力把勇气与战争分隔开来,让具有电脑技能的胆小鬼不必冒生命危险就可以杀人。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 757-758 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:03:58
天才的想象力远远超过他的学问,书呆子的学问远远超过他的想象力。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 795-795 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:05:53
要成为一名哲学家,首先走路要非常慢。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 795-796 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:06:10
真正的数学家能理解完整性,真正的哲学家能理解不完整性。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 801-802 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:07:04
有限但上限未知的东西,在认识论上跟无限的东西没有什么两样。这是认识论的无限性。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 802-803 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:07:25
有意识的无知,如果你做得到的话,可以扩展你的世界,它可以让事物变得无限。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 803-804 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:07:52
对古典哲学家们来说,哲学洞察力是一辈子闲散生活的结果;对我来说,一辈子闲散生活是哲学洞察力的结果。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 804-805 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:08:12
要承认有道理的东西并不是真的有道理,需要大量的智能和信心。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 808-809 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:09:20
悲剧的是,我们从傻瓜、经济学家和别的反例人物身上学到了最多的东西,但我们却对他们一点都不感激。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 810-811 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:10:04
哲学是人们协同追求真理的过程,跟诡辩者们花言巧语追求辩论胜利、名誉和金钱形成了鲜明的对比。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 810-812 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:10:12
哲学是人们协同追求真理的过程,跟诡辩者们花言巧语追求辩论胜利、名誉和金钱形成了鲜明的对比。25个世纪之后的今天,满目全都是领薪水的研究人员和喜爱名誉地位的书呆子。所谓“进步”不过如此。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 832-832 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:10:49
数学家从问题出发得出解决方案,咨询师从“解决方案”出发创造问题。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 833-833 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:11:11
他们所谓的“风险”,我称之为机遇;他们所谓的“低风险”机遇,我称之为愚人的问题。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 835-835 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:11:42
要判断一个人是否极度愚蠢(或者极度聪明),就看经济和政治新闻对他来说是否有意义。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 836-837 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:12:07
左派认为市场是愚蠢的,所以模型应该是聪明的;右派认为模型是愚蠢的,所以市场应该是聪明的。双方都从来没有意识到,市场和模型都是极度愚蠢的。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 850-852 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:14:54
记者跟格言家的思路正好相反:我提出“你需要技能才能赢得宝马车,需要技能和魔鬼般的运气才能变成沃伦·巴菲特”。记者们对此的总结是,“塔勒布认为巴菲特不具有任何技能”。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 852-853 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:15:19
好奇的人喜欢科学,敏感而有天赋的人喜欢艺术,实干的人喜欢商业,剩下的人只好当经济学家了。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 899-899 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:17:39
让我尊重的特质包括博学,以及在别人顾忌名誉的场合挺身而出的勇气。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 902-903 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:18:23
社会科学意味着发明出一种我们能理解的“人类”定义。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 903-904 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:18:41
跟地位相当的人说“祝你好运”时,弱者的想法正好相反,强者无所谓,只有伟大者才是真心的。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 904-905 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:19:13
在过去,只有一部分男人有生育权,但是所有的女人都有生育权。平等对女人而言更为自然。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 906-906 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:19:30
口头威胁是能力不足的最好证明。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 908-909 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:19:51
弱者不可能是好人,或者说,只有在太过全面、毫无遗漏的法律系统里,他才能是个好人。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 909-910 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:20:27
无论如何,尽量避免说话—威胁,抱怨,解释,叙述,重复,恳求,试图赢得争论的胜利—尽量避免说话!
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 938-938 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:21:41
当人们注意你的缺席胜过别人的在场时,你就知道自己的影响力了。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 941-942 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:22:08
辱骂是唯一一种绝不可能造假的欣赏方式。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 942-943 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:22:35
当女人说男人聪明时,她通常是说他长得帅;当男人说女人笨时,他肯定是说她长得漂亮。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 943-944 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:23:17
绝大多数婚配网站无法理解的是,人们对自己说不出口的东西更感兴趣。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 945-946 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:23:50
网络打破了私人领域跟公众领域之间的壁垒,过去那些私下里咕哝的脏话现在成了流行语。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 948-949 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:24:34
我们知道商品肯定比推销手册上描述的差,但我们却没法容忍人们表现得比他们留给我们的第一印象差。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 967-968 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:25:20
在任何时候,人们都会渴望金钱、知识或者爱;有时一个人可以同时渴望其中的两样,但永远不可能同时渴望这三样。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 968-968 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:25:37
没有牺牲的爱就像是偷窃。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 968-969 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:25:51
婚姻是让男人女性化—同时也让女人女性化—的标准过程。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 971-971 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:26:30
除开友谊和爱之外,你很难找到参与双方都是愚人的情况。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 973-974 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:27:03
最关注你的人是那些恨你的人。朋友、追求者和伴侣都不可能对你如此好奇。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 974-975 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:27:19
当年轻女人跟其他方面毫无吸引人之处的富有男人恋爱时,她可以真诚地相信,她是被他的某个特殊身体部位(例如鼻子、脖子、膝盖)迷住了。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 976-976 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:27:48
一个好的敌人,比最有价值的追求者更加忠诚,更加容易预料,并且对聪明人来说也更加有用。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 977-977 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:27:59
如果诽谤我的人们更了解我的话,他们就会更恨我。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 1008-1009 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:30:51
看看我们自己创造的普罗克拉斯提斯之床吧,其中有些是有益的,有些则是有问题的:规章制度,由上而下的政府,学术界,体育场,上下班路线,高层办公楼,非自发的人际关系,雇佣等等。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 1016-1020 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:32:12
读者从我的格言中可以看出,我对大自然维持强壮的方法心怀敬意(几十亿年的时间足够任何脆弱的东西土崩瓦解);古典思想(对未知事物的尊重,认识论层面上的谦卑)比启蒙运动之后的现代伪科学自我中心主义更加强壮。因此,我的古典价值观驱使我强调博学、优雅和勇气的重要性,反对现代社会的虚伪、庸俗和书呆子气。(3
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 1031-1032 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:33:00
尼采的《查拉图斯特拉如是说》,纪伯伦的《先知》,都采用了系列格言的形式。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 1042-1044 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:34:21
然而,最棒的格言是这样的:其中的内容你从来没有考虑过,并且需要反复读好几次才能意识到其中包含的重要真理。有些时候,这些真理的静默力量是如此强大,以至于你读完之后马上就忘记了。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 1058-1060 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:35:33
许多庸俗的人反对我的观点,认为我在反对科技,然而事实上,我反对的只是人们对科技的副作用视而不见的态度——这是脆弱的范式。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 1062-1064 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:36:04
网络时代让人们的思维日益简单化、平面化,简而言之,就是所谓的“书呆子化”;衡量这一现象的最好方式就是讽刺的日益消失,因为机械论的思维会把讽刺的内容太过当真。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录(中信管理经典) (纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Taleb N.N.))
- Your Highlight at location 1073-1075 | Added on Monday, 1 September 2014 09:36:58
纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布 绝大多数时候都是一名漫游者,在地球各个角落的咖啡厅里冥想。
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随机生存的智慧:黑天鹅语录 纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布 195个笔记 ◆ 信息 >> 遇到我们不了解、不清楚的东西时,我们的解决办法是对我们自己的人生观和世界观进行“拉伸”或者“压缩”,强迫它们符合世俗的、预设的、人为制定的观念、门类和套路。 ◆ PRELUDES >> To bankrupta fool , give him information >> In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand ...
>> In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
>> Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.
◆ COUNTER NARRATIVES
>> They will envy you for your success, for your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status —but rarely for your wisdom.
>> The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality—without exploiting them for fun and profit.
>> The test of whether you really liked a book is if you reread it (and how many times); the test of whether you really liked someone's company is if you are ready to meet him again and again—the rest is spin, or that variety of sentiment now called self-esteem.
>> We ask "why is he rich (or poor)?" not"why isn't he richer (or poorer)?";"why is the crisis so deep?" not "why isn't it deeper?".
>> It is the appearance of inconsistency, and not its absence, that makes people attractive.
>> We call narcissistic those individuals who behave as if they were the central residents of the world; those who do exactly the same in a set of two we call lovers.
>> Wisdom in the young is as unattractive as frivolity in the elderly.
◆ MATTERS ONTOLOGICAL
>> It is a very recent disease to mistake the unobserved for the nonexistent.
>> Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
>> You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.
◆ THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE
>> If you can't spontaneously detect (without analyzing) the difference between sacred and profane, you'll never know what religion means. You will also never figure out what we commonly call art. You will never understand anything.
>> The source of the tragic in history is in mistaking someone else's unconditional for conditional—and the reverse.
>> it is easier to fast than diet.
>> To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.
◆ CHANCE, SUCCANESS, HAPPINESS, AND STOICISM
>> Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. The rest comes from loss of control.
>> The opposite of success isn't failure, it is namedropping.
>> Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.
Or, making him fucking disappear as a fart
>> Fortune punishes the greedy by making him poor and the very greedy by making him rich.
>> Fortune punishes the greedy by making him poor and the very greedy by making him rich.
>> "unwealth", that is, the difference, at any point in time, between what you have and what you would like to have.
>> What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.
>> You want to avoid being disliked without being envied or admired.
>> Read nothing from the past 100 years; eat no fruits from the past 1,000 years; drink nothing from the past 4,000 years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over 40. A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of 30.
>> Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
>> You will be civilized on the day when you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
>> Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
>> The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
>> You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
>> To see if you like where you are, without the chains of dependence, check if you are as happy returning as you were leaving.
>> The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
>> Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
>> The Web is an unhealthy place for someone hungry for attention.
>> People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels people you don't want to resemble when you grow up.
>> It is a good practice to always apologize, except when you have done something wrong.
>> It is as difficult to change someone's opinions as it is to change his tastes.
>> Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them.
>> Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
>> They are born then put in a box, they go home to live in a box, they study by ticking boxes, they go to what is called"work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box, they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they go to the gym in a box to sit in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box. All boxes, Euclidian, geometrically smooth boxes.
>> The 20th century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia. The 21st will be that of the technological one.
>> Efforts at building social, political, and medical utopias have caused nightmares; many cures and techniques came from martial efforts.
◆ CHARCMING AND LESS CHARMING SUCKER PROBLEMS
>> It seems that it is the most unsuccessful people who give the most advice, particularly for writing and financial matters.
>> Rumors are only valuable when they are denied.
>> Over the long term, you are more likely to fool yourself than others.
>> There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
>> People usually apologize so they can do it again.
>> Mathematics is to knowledge what an artificial hand is to the real one; some amputate to replace.
>> Social media are severely antisocial, health foods are empirically unhealthy, knowledge workers are very ignorant, and social sciences aren't scientific at all.
>> For so many, instead of looking for"cause of death" when they expire, we should be looking for "cause of life" when they are still around.
>> If someone gives you more than one reason why he wants the job, don't hire him.
◆ THESEUS,OR,LIVING THE PALEO LIFE
>> THESEUS
>> My only measure of success is how much time you have to kill.
>> Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
>> Technology can degrade (and endanger) every aspect of a sucker's life while convincing him that it is becoming more"efficient".
>> The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.
>> You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
>> We are satisfied with natural (or old) objects like vistas or classical paintings but insatiable with technologies, amplifying small improvements in versions, obsessed about 2.0, caught in a mental treadmill.
>> For everything, use boredom in place of a clock, as a biological wristwatch, though under constraints of politeness.
>> For a classicist, a competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man,
>> You exist in full if and only if your conversation (or writings) cannot be easily reconstructed with clips from other conversations.
>> Technology is at its best when it is invisible.
>> wonder how alpha lions, the strongest, expend the least amount of energy, sleeping twenty hours a day
◆ THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS
>> Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
>> Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
>> What they call philosophy I call literature; what they call literature I call journalism; what they call journalism I call gossip; and what they call gossip I call (generously) voyeurism.
>> Writers are remembered for their best work, politicians for their worst mistakes, and businessmen are almost never remembered.
>> For pleasure, read one chapter by Nabokov. For punishment, two.
>> There is a distinction between expressive hypochondria and literature, just as there is one between self-help and philosophy.
>> You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
>> No author should be considered as having failed until he starts teaching others about writing.
>> Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
>> Just as there are authors who enjoy having written and others who enjoy writing, there are books you enjoy reading and others you enjoy having read.
>> With regular books, read the text and skip the footnotes; with those written by academics read the footnotes and skip the text, and with business books skip both text and footnotes.
>> Double a man's erudition; you will halve his citations.
>> What we call "business books" is an eliminative category invented by bookstores for writings that have no depth, no style, no empirical rigor, and no linguistic sophistication.
>> Some books cannot be summarized (real literature, poetry), some can be compressed to about ten pages; the majority to zero pages.
>> It's much harder to write a book review for a book you've read than for a book you haven't read.
>> Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
>> Today, we mostly face the choice between those who write clearly about a subject they don't understand, and those who write poorly about a subject they don't understand.
>> We are better at (involuntarily) doing out of the box than (voluntarily) thinking out of the box.
>> It is much less dangerous to think like a man of action than to act like a man of thought.
>> We unwittingly amplify commonalities with friends, dissimilarities with strangers, and contrasts with enemies.
>> Many are so unoriginal they study history to find mistakes to repeat.
>> The more complex the system, the weaker the notion of Universal.
◆ FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS
>> Unless we manipulate our surroundings, we have as little control over what and whom we think about as we do over the muscles of our hearts.
>> every ten years, collective wisdom degrades by half.
>> The tragedy is that much of what you think is random is in your control and, what's worse, the opposite.
>> What made medicine fool people for so long was that its successes were prominently displayed and its mistakes(literally) buried.
>> The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.
>> The calamity of the information age is that the toxicity of data increases much faster than its benefits.
>> Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.
>> Randomness is indistinguishable from complicated, undetected, and undetectable order; but order itself is indistinguishable from artful randomness.
◆ AESTHETICS
>> We love imperfection, the right kind of imperfection; we pay up for original art and typo-laden 1st editions.
>> Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
>> In classical renderings of prominent figures, males are lean and females are plump; in modern photographs, the opposite.
>> If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
◆ ETHICS
>> We are most motivated to help those who need us the least.
>> To value a person, consider the difference between how impressive he or she was at the first encounter and the most recent one.
>> Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone.
>> We find it to be in extremely bad taste for individuals to boast of their accomplishments; but when countries do so we call it "national pride."
>> You can only convince people who think they can benefit from being convinced.
>> Even the cheapest misers can be generous with advice.
>> You may outlive your strength, never your wisdom.
>> Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.
>> Avoid calling heroes those who had no other choice
>> I trust everyone except those who tell me they are trustworthy.
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>> The difference between magnificence and arrogance is in what one does when nobody is looking.
>> The difference between magnificence and arrogance is in what one does when nobody is looking.
>> The nation-state: apartheid without political incorrectness.
>> Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.
>> Someone from your social class who becomes poor affects you more than thousands of starving ones outside of it.
◆ ROBUSTNESS AND FRAGILITY
>> When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
>> Nation-states like war; city-tates like commerce; families like stability; and individuals like entertainment.
>> The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist an imbecile-proof one, or, even better, a rationalist-proof one.
>> For the robust, an error is information; for the fragile, an error is an error.
◆ THE LUDIDCOM FAAI
>> Sports are commoditized and, alas, prostituted randomness.
>> When you beat up someone physically you get exercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the internet you just harm yourself.
>> They agree that chess training only improves chess skills, but disagree that classroom training (almost) only improves classroom skills.
>> Games were created to give nonheroes the illusion of winning. In real life you don't know who really won or who really lost (except too late); but you can tell who is heroic and who is not.
>> They read Plutarch on an E-reader but refuse to drink Chateau Lynch Bages in a styrofoam cup.
◆ EPISTEMOLOGY AND SUBTRACTIVE KNOWLEDGE
>> Since Plato, Western thought and the theory of knowledge have focused on the notions of True-False; as commendable as it was, it is high time to shift the concern to Robust-Fragile, and social epistemology to the more serious problem of Sucker-Nonsucker.
>> The perfect sucker understands that pigs can stare at pearls, but doesn't realize he can be in an analog situation.
>> It takes extraordinary wisdom and selfcontrol to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
>> Knowledge is subtractive, not additive; what we subtract (reduction by what does not work, what not to do), not what we add (what to do).
>> Happiness; we don't know what it means, how to measure it, and how to reach it; but we know extremely well how to avoid unhappiness.
>> The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination.
>> The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine work within institutions.
◆ THE SCANDAL OF PREDICTION
>> A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.
>> Anyone voicing a forecast or expressing an opinion without something at risk has some element of phoniness
>> For Seneca, the Stoic sage should withdraw from public efforts when unheeded and the state is corrupt beyond repair. It is wiser to wait for self-destruction.
◆ BEING A PHILOSOPHER AND MANAGING TO REMAIN ONE
>> To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.
>> Real mathematicians understand completeness, real philosophers understand incompleteness.
>> ? Most people need to surpass their predecessors; Plato managed to surpass all his successors.
>> To be a philosopher is to know through long walks, by reasoning, and reasoning only, a priori, what others can only potentially learn from their mistakes, crises, accidents, and bankruptcies, that is, a posteriori.
>> Conscious ignorance, if you can practice it, expands your world; it can make things infinite.
>> For the classics, philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me, a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
>> It takes a lot of intellect and confidence to accept that what makes sense doesn't really make sense.
>> Saying "the mathematics of uncertainty" is like saying "the chastity of sex"—what is mathematized is no longer uncertain, and vice versa.
◆ ECONOMIC VLEIRFY
>> There are designations, like "economist","prostitute", or "consultant" for which additional characterization doesn't add information.
>> A mathematician starts with a problem and creates a solution; a consultant starts by offering a "solution" and creates a problem.
>> W h a t t h e y c a l l " r i s k " I c a l l opportunity; but what they call "low risk" opportunity I call sucker problem.
>> The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news make sense to him.
>> The left holds that because markets are stupid models should be smart; the right believes that because models are stupid markets should be smart. Alas, it never hit both sides that both markets and models are very stupid.
>> Economics is like a dead star that still seems to produce light; but you know it is dead.
>> Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending.
>> You can be certain that the head of a corporation has a lot to worry about when he announces publicly that "there is nothing to worry about".
>> The stock market, in brief: participants are calmly waiting in line to be slaughtered while thinking it is for a Broadway show.
>> What makes us fragile is that institutions cannot have the same virtues(honor, truthfulness, courage, loyalty, tenacity) as individuals.
>> The worst damage has been caused by competent people trying to do good; the best improvements have been brought by incompetent ones not trying to do good.
>> "It is much easier to scam people for billions than for just millions".
>> One of the failures of "scientific approximation" in the nonlinear domain comes from the inconvenient fact that the average of expectations is different from the expectation of averages.
>> The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist.
>> Public companies, like human cells, are programmed for apoptosis, suicide through debt and hidden risks.
◆ THE SAGE, THE WEAK, AND THE MAGNIFICENT
>> How superb to become wise without being boring; how sad to be boring without being wise.
>> The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation.
>> The mediocre regret their words more than their silence; finer men regret their silence more than their words, the magnificent has nothing to regret.
>> Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
>> When expressing "good luck" to a peer, the weak wishes the opposite, the strong is mildly indifferent; but only the magnificent means it.
>> The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
>> A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
>> The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death.
◆ THE IMPLCIT AND THE EXPLICIT
>> You know you have influence when people start noticing your absence more than the presence of others.
>> Some reticent people use silence to conceal their intelligence; but most do so to hide the lack of it.
>> When someone says "I am not that stupid", it often means that he is more stupid than he thinks.
>> Bad-mouthing is the only genuine, never faked, expression of admiration.
>> For company, you often prefer those who find you interesting over those you find interesting.
>> And you can be certain that a person has neither means nor will to help you when he says "I am here to help".
>> When someone starts a sentence with"simply", you should expect to hear something very complicated.
>> Half the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
◆ ON THE VARIETIES OF LOVE AND NONLOVE
>> At any stage, humans can thirst for money, knowledge, or love; sometimes for two, never for three.
>> Marriage is the institutional process of feminizing men—and feminizing women.
>> Outside of friendship and love, it is very hard to find situations with bilateral, two-way suckers.
>> When a young woman partners with an otherwise uninteresting rich man, she can sincerely believe that she is attracted to some very specific body part (say, his nose, neck, or knee).
>> A good foe is far more loyal, far more predictable, and, to the clever, far more useful than the most valuable admirer.
0 有用 倪考梦 2012-07-17
妙语如珠,推荐!BTW,这里面不少句子都适合发到微博上,很适合用来装文艺青年用。
2 有用 铲屎大将军 2018-05-23
印成明信片或者台历可能会更合适,印成书就有点骗钱了
0 有用 小心麦兜 2014-03-17
似乎也是关于打破自我设限
0 有用 曹溪一勺 2012-08-04
格言式,微博体。原书名:普罗克拉斯提斯之床。这个床就是库恩的范式。
1 有用 New Life 2012-09-05
一般
0 有用 Creative 2021-03-01
年长的人最美丽的时候,是他们拥有了年轻人所缺乏的东西的时候:雍容、博学、智慧、经验,以及波澜不惊的平静。
0 有用 3st 2021-02-18
看的电子版,决定买一本纸质版随时翻看。
0 有用 iche 2021-02-15
毒鸡汤合集 看的很爽
0 有用 小七 2021-02-11
看这本书是因为塔勒布的《反脆弱》,看了以后会去思考,自己是否有这样的能力,自己是否忽略了培养这样的能力。
0 有用 肖恩 2020-12-29
为文风吐血,标题即核心