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“ ”When you are employed, hence dependent on other people’s judgment, looking busy can help you claim responsibility for the results in a random environment. The appearance of busyness reinforces the perception of causality, of the link between results and one’s role in them.
About Nassim Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.
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Additional quotes by Nassim Taleb
Psychologists have shown the irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.
What made medicine fool people for so long was that its successes were prominently displayed and its mistakes (literally) buried.
This, perhaps is true self-confidence: the ability to look at the world without the need to find signs that stroke one's ego.