What a powerful concept! "The same wind that blows out a candle, feeds a forest fire!" I believe as it relates to people and life, that you can become antifragile - feed off of what tries to harm you! Are you going to be the candle and let what happens to you kill your motivation? Or are you going to be the forest fire and let what happens to you ignite your fire and become unstoppable!
25:18 - Good technology is what destroys old tech. Not something that brings something new. Startup idea - Don't build something new, destroy something old. To be successful - Tinkering, never miss options and have optionality.
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What a powerful concept! "The same wind that blows out a candle, feeds a forest fire!" I believe as it relates to people and life, that you can become antifragile - feed off of what tries to harm you! Are you going to be the candle and let what happens to you kill your motivation? Or are you going to be the forest fire and let what happens to you ignite your fire and become unstoppable!
Taleb starts at 1:05
25:18 - Good technology is what destroys old tech. Not something that brings something new. Startup idea - Don't build something new, destroy something old.
To be successful - Tinkering, never miss options and have optionality.
‘Great men become great because they’ve learned how to master luck, what the vulgar call luck is a characteristic of genius” Napoleon Bonaparte.
One of the greatest thinkers of our time, and I ain’t using “greatest thinker” inflationary…
Please share your philosophy briefly if you don't mind. He communicates different point of view of what life/business is
31:57 summary
Brilliant
very interesting
My philosophy is do exactly the opposite of what the talking heads on cnbc say.
Comments are more educative.
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