We do not spontaneously learn that we don’t learn that we don’t learn. The problem lies in the structure of our minds: we don’t learn rules, just facts, and only facts. Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not to learn rules) we don’t seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion. | |
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
From his book: “The Black Swan“ | |
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Passionately Scorned Rules
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