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"Nassim Nicholas Taleb, gadfly author of The Black Swan, gives his 10 rules for surviving an unpredictable world with dignity."
1 Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical
about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and
human in the small and the aesthetic.
2 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.
3 It’s not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing
a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their
knowledge too seriously.
4 Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your
last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control
outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will
always have the last word.
5 Don’t disturb complicated systems that have been around for a
very long time. We don’t understand their logic. Don’t pollute the
planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific
‘evidence’.
6 Learn to fail with pride — and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error — by mastering the error part.
7 Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words ‘impossible’,
‘never’, ‘too difficult’ too often, drop him or her from your social
network. Never take ‘no’ for an answer (conversely, take most ‘yeses’
as ‘most probably’).
8 Don’t read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and,
of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news
matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.
9 Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.
10 Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones.
Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted
them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom
(Thanks, Avi!)
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