나심 탈레브의 어록

 

1. 중요한 것은 사람들이 당신에 대해 무엇을 말하는지가 아니라, 그들이 얼마 만큼의 열정으로 그것을 말하느냐에 달려 있다.

 

2. 무엇이 비합리적으로 보인다면, 그것은 당신이 '합리성'을 잘못 정의하고 있기 때문이다.

 

3. 생계를 위해 일하는 사람으로부터는 절대 투자의 조언을 듣지 말라.

 

5. '그러나'를 먼저 말하는 사람이 토론에서 패배한다.

 

 

 

Kyle Eschenroeder가 정리함

 

He recently released, for free, a new work-in-progress currently titled “More Aphorisms, Maxims, and Heuristics.” Below you will find 44 of my favorites.

Have fun:

 

 

 

1. What counts is not what people say about you, it is how much energy they spend saying it.

 

2. If something looks irrational – and has been so for a long time – odds are you have a wrong definition of rationality.

 

3. Never take investment advice from someone who has to work for a living.

 

4. Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

 

5. The first one who uses “but” has lost the argument.

 

6. Virtue is sequence of small acts of omission. Honor and Grandeur can be a single gutsy, momentous, and self-sacrificial act of commission.

 

7. To be a person of virtue you need to be boringly virtuous in every single small action. To be a person of honor all you need is be honorable in a few important things (say risk your life or career or reputation for a just cause, or live up to your word when nobody else has guts to do so, etc.)

 

8. To understand how something works, figure out how to break it.

 

9. Bring the good news in trickles, the bad news in lumps.

 

10. It takes a lot of skills to be virtuous without being boring.

 

11. Atheists are just modern versions of religious fundamentalists: they both take religion too literally.

무신론자는 현대판 종교 근본주의자들이다. 무신론자와 근본주의자들은 모두 종교를 액면 그대로 이해한다. 

 

 

12. High Modernity: routine in place of physical effort, physical effort in place of mental expenditure, and mental expenditure in place of mental clarity.

 

13. It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

약점을 감추려는 것은 나약함의 증거이다. 

 

14. Life is about execution rather than purpose.

     삶은 목적이 아니라 실행에 있다.

  

15. The general principle of antifragility: it is much better to do things you cannot explain than explain things you cannot do.

반취약의 일반 원칙: 실행할 수 없는 것을 설명하는 것보다, 설명할 수는 없는 것을 실행하는 것이 용이하다.  

 

 

16. The ultimate freedom lies in not having to explain “why” you did something.

 

17. Life is about the early detection of the reversal point beyond which belongings (say a house, country house, car, or business) start owning you.

 

삶에서 중요한 건 역전의 지점을 초기에 탐지하는 것인데, 이 역전의 지점을 지나면 집,별장, 차, 사업 등 당신의 소유물이 당신을 소유하기 시작한다.  

 

 

18. The first, and hardest, step to wisdom: avert the standard assumption that people know what they want.

  지혜로 가는 첫번째이자 가장 어려운 관문: 사람들이 그들이 원하는 것이 무엇인지 안다는 모범적인 가정을 뒤엎어라.  

 

19. If someone is making an effort to ignore you, he is not ignoring you.

 

20. A good man is warm and respectful towards the waiter or people of lower financial and social condition.

 

21. When someone starts a sentence with the first half containing “I,” “not” and “but,” the “not” should be removed and the “but” replaced with “therefore.”

 

22. Journalists cannot grasp that what is interesting is not necessarily important; most cannot even grasp that what is sensational is not necessarily interesting.

 

23. Injuries done to us by others tend to be acute; the self-inflicted ones tend to be chronic.

타인에 의한 상처는 아주 고통스럽다. 이에 반해 자해에 의한 상처는 만성적이다.  

 

24. We often benefit from harm done to us by others; almost never from self-inflicted injuries.

타인에 의해 가해진 고통에서 우리는 때로 이익을 얻지만, 자해에 의한 상처로부터는 절대로 얻는 게 없다.

 

25. For a free person, the optimal – most opportunistic – route between two points should never be the shortest one.

 

 

26. Just as eating cow-meat doesn’t turn you into a cow, studying philosophy doesn’t make you wiser.

소고기를 먹는다고 소가 되지 않듯이, 철학을 공부한다고 지혜로워지는 것은 아니다. 

 

27. If the professor is not capable of giving a class without preparation, don’t attend. People should only teach what they have learned organically, through experience and curiosity…or get another job.

 

28. Mistakes detected by copy editors are not likely to be noticed by readers, and vice versa.

 

29. Accept the rationality of time, never its fairness and morality.

 

30. Did you notice that collecting art is to hobby-painting as watching pornography is to doing the real thing? Only difference is status.

 

31. Real life (vita beata) is when your choices correspond to your duties.

당신의 선택과 당신의 의무가 일치할 때, 그것이 진실한 사람이다. 

 

32. If you detect a repressed smile on the salesperson’s face, you paid too much for it.

 

33. Polemic is a lucrative form of entertainment, as the media can employ unpaid and fiercely motivated actors.

 

34. France took Algeria, hoping for a country to eat coussoulet and instead France is now eating couscous. Inverse effects are the norm.

 

35. In a conflict, the middle ground is the least likely to be correct.

갈등에서 중간 지점은 대체로 옳지 않다.  

 

36. The ancient Mediterranean: people changed rites as we do with ethnic food.

 

37. Risk takers never complain. They do.

 

38. You are as good as how nice you are to people you don’t have to be nice to.

 

39. Intellect without balls is like a race car without tires.

 

40. We tend to define “rude” less by the words used (what is said) than by the status of the recipient (to whom it is addressed).

 

41. Studying neurobiology to understand humans is like studying ink to understand literature.

 인간을 이해하기 위해 신경생리학을 공부하는 것은, 문학을 공부하기 위해 잉크를 공부하는 것과 동일하다.

 

42. The only people who think that real world experience doesn’t matter are those who never had real world experience.

 

43. Automation makes otherwise pleasant activities turn into “work.”

 

 

44. Much of the difference between what is heaven and what is hell is branding.

천국과 지옥의 차이의 대부분은 단지 상표의 차이일 뿐이다.