15 APHORISMS FILLED WITH WISDOM:

1) Avoid being disliked without being envied or admired.

2) A slave is much easier controlled by convincing him he is an employee.

3) Never say NO twice if you mean it.

4) Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

5) Instead of finding role models, it is more effective to find anti-models (people you don’t want to resemble when you grow up).

6) Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men act to fulfill their duties.

7) Robust is when you care more about the few who like your work than the multitude who dislike it. Fragile is when you care more about the few who dislike your work than the multitude who like it.

8) For the robust, an error is information. For the fragile an error is an error.

9) The classical man’s worst fear was inglorious death. The modern man’s worst fear is just death.

10) You have a real life, if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

11) You know you have influence when people start noticing your absence more than the presence of others.

12) Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

13) If you wake up in the morning and know with any precision what your day looks like, you are a little bit dead. The more precision the more dead you are.

14) Most people fear being without audiovisual stimulation because they are too repetitive when they think and imagine things on their own.

15) The mediocre regret their words more than their silence, finer men regret their silence more than their words, the magnificent has nothing to regret.

Source book

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Taleb

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