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“Any successful person has to decide what to do in part by deciding what not to do.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“It is therefore imperative that you identify your work as both personally interesting and, at the same time, integrally connected to the well-being of others.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“I found the concept of hindsight bias fascinating, and incredibly important to management. One of the toughest problems a CEO faces is convincing managers that they should take on risky projects if the expected gains are high enough. Their managers worry, for good reason, that if the project works out badly, the manager who championed the project will be blamed whether or not the decision was a good one at the time. Hindsight bias greatly exacerbates this problem, because the CEO will wrongly think that whatever was the cause of the failure, it should have been anticipated in advance. And, with the benefit of hindsight, he always knew this project was a poor risk. What makes the bias particularly pernicious is that we all recognize this bias in others but not in ourselves.”
― Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics