"My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who don’t have the courage to sometimes say: I don’t know...."Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Why does it rain on few people? While others enjoy the sun.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb can give you some answers to as infinitum questions of mankind.
Most of us will spend their lifetime hoping for some big event to turn up, “The Black Swan”. It’s the antechamber of hope, as the author says. We cannot predict so its useless to hope, although this might seem to dismay the numerous quotes on hope.
But the black swan disproves all that is obvious, it blasts all the common held beliefs.
Why a majority of population is guided by newspapers and TV?
Why someone never thinks that TV and news might be manipulated, biased for the business or the political parties.
Why is the people with high degrees and PhDs are uswally the ones who are bypassed by the under performers.
Why Robert Kiyosaki choose rich dad with poor academics over his genius poor dad?
But what I am trying to state is do not be pipelined in your thought process, be open for all domains, stay hungry stay foolish.
The education system and the social system is such that it outcasts anyone who goes out of the bourgeoisie way. Out of box thinking is vital for innovation and creativity. Every quarter an article will pop up on HBR on innovation management. We see MNCs spending millions and millions for being innovative, yet it lies within us. The secret is within us.
Reading through the post I was wondering if fall of google can be next black swan.But as Mr. taleb states "Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world. But we just can't predict".
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