Fifty percent of all medical personnel graduate in the bottom half of their class.
“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“intuition is always right in at least two important ways;
It is always in response to something.
it always has your best interest at heart”
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
It is always in response to something.
it always has your best interest at heart”
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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