Passionately Scorned Rules

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:
2021	Creation Without Reservation
	From The Tiniest Embers
2020	Listening To The Trees
	Your Mind’s Made Up?
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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