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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

by William Dalrymple

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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust

by John Coates

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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)

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Rohit’s Quotes

“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

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“I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George
W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: autism, intelligence, iq, nerd, nerdiness, nerds, wisdom, wisdom-vs-nerds

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“A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“You need a story to displace a story.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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“For I have a single definition of success: you look in the mirror every evening, and wonder if you disappoint the person you were at 18, right before the age when people start getting corrupted by life. Let him or her be the only judge; not your reputation, not your wealth, not your standing in the community, not the decorations on your lapel. If you do not feel ashamed, you are successful. All other definitions of success are modern constructions; fragile modern constructions.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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