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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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Exaggerating, Imagining, Anticipating |
2021 | Creation Without Reservation |
From The Tiniest Embers (I’m No Angel) | |
2020 | Listening To The Trees |
Your Mind’s Made Up? (He’ll Never Love You Like I Do) | |
2019 | In Silence |
Not Much Light Here | |
2018 | A Gift |
2017 | Unless You Genuinely Are Small |
2016 | B1 |
2015 | Five Things |
2014 | Have Faith |
2013 | Found In A Mine |
2012 | Two-Sided Coin |
2011 | Passionately Scorned Rules |
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Passionately Scorned Rules
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