The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your … - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

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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.

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To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

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Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

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