Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Focus

Quotes about: Focus

• People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Growing Up, Good Life, People

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1730, Random House

• I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fall, Men, Gym Rats

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.245, Random House

• The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Focus, Traps, Reverse

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.55, Random House

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