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Gustaf Eriksson

Nassim taleb is always entertaining, witty and thought provoking ...

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 23 août 2017

Nassim taleb is always entertaining, witty and thought provoking! I don't know why I didnt realise this, but was at first surprised that the book consists of just aphorims, nothing else, but it grows on me....I read a few every day and ponder them.

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Brendan Mc Veigh

Four Stars

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 31 mai 2015

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Very illuminating

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Alessandro

Not Taleb’s easiest book - Read it after his "Black Swan" and "Antifragile"

Commenté en Italie le 24 septembre 2018

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A useful and enriching collection of aphorisms, that you may want to read over a long period of time. I personally enjoyed some of them, disagreed with many (the author would likely say I didn’t understand them and find a witty way to insult me without looking me in the eyes) and probably missed the hidden meaning in the most important ones, alas (as the whole idea of the book is to help readers become aware of the existence of the hidden).

I’ll reread them all in 10 years from now, certain that most of the ones I like now, I won’t like then; and vice versa.

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Jimlad

Aphorisms

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 5 février 2012

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This book was bought for a Christmas present. No complaints have been received so far. I have not read it myself so am unable to comment further.

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Bhaskar Chowdhury

Excellent book to have in your kitty!!

Commenté en Inde le 23 juillet 2015

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I am being a fan of Nassim Nicholas Taleb,so my reviews might be biased. Anyway,magnificent collection of aphorism. Taken from his other well renowned books and keep it in single place.

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Mark Harrison

Oddly mixed

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 27 novembre 2010

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As a fan of Taleb since " Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets ", I'd been looking forward to this.

I knew, before purchase, that it wasn't the same sort of book, but simply a collection of aphorisms, and there are some (very) good ones in there.

At its best, the book will the thought-provoking, and make you reconsider your approach to how most people in the West seem to approach their life.

At its worst, however, the book degenerates into fairly bland attacks on whichever groups Taleb seems not to like today, and at times drifts away from the aphorism into the sound-bite.

There's no doubt that the Author has a tremendous understanding of some of the major problems that the Economy (and wider Western civilisation since Plato) is facing, but I'm left feeling that the book wasn't, in the end, the right format to get his thinking across. I personally find Taleb at his best when writing literate, discursive, prose about the subject.

On balance, I have to give it 4 stars. This is a rare instance when I feel that a longer, more detailed, work would have been better.

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Amandeep

Taleb's view our life

Commenté en Inde le 15 juillet 2016

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This book makes u laugh and think. Gives you totally different perspective than what u generally get from other sources. But don't get carried away otherwise you may end being someone who he is making fun here.

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bhardwaj

Brilliant Book

Commenté en Inde le 11 septembre 2013

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I would strongly reccommend this book. Makes for an excellent read. A lot of it makes sense, and one does have certain "Aha" moments, but what makes it paticularly delightful is some of the counter intuitive aphorisms!! Taleb is brilliant as usual.

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andrew pettitt

delivered as advertised

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 2 mai 2015

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delivered as advertised

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The skills of being human.

Commenté au Japon le 28 juillet 2011

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飛ぶ鳥を落とす勢いのタレブ氏は、現在、様々なシンポジウムやフォーラムに招待されて世界中を飛び回っている模様です。「何か短いのでいいから書いて下さいよ」と出版社に頼み込まれて出した格言集ではなかろうと警戒感があってしばらく手を出さずにいたのですが、読んでみたらばそんなことはなかったです。エネルギーが高く、情熱に満ちています。このようにずっと怒っていられる人の魂は若々しいに違いない。しかも陰気さがないので、何故か読んで元気が出ましたわ。
「Any idiot can be intelligent」と吐き捨てるタレブ氏が掲げる三大美徳は、博識、優雅、勇気。Megalopsychos（the magnificent）だそうです。英雄はゆったりと歩く。タレブ氏の古典主義者たる美意識がよく伝わる一冊です。彼の美意識からすると、近代経済学的思考とは生なるものを卑小化し矮小化するどんなにかみみっちい思想なんでしょう。
私は格言集の書評というといくつか引用して欲しいと思う質なので、個人的に「全くだよ」となった数句をどうぞ。

「The sacred is all about unconditionals; the profane is all about conditionals.」
「People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels--people you don't want to resemble when you grow up.」
「Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, noble, elegant, and heroic life.」
「The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.」

爆笑した句はこれ。
「The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds.」

以下とほぼ全く同じことを友人に言ったことがあるので、読んで驚愕した一句。ただし肉体を追い詰めるのもself-knowledgeに至る方法だと後年考えを改めましたが。加えて、私にとってむしろ興味深いのは、「人間は何故に動物の能力を必死で真似ようとするのか」の方です。しかしナルシーなスポーツ馬鹿男が周辺にいたら投げつけられるかもしれない一句（身の安全は自己責任で）。
「For a classicist, a competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.」

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