People think he's an asshole because he sometimes snaps at interviewers. He just has no appetite for 'corrupted souls' - his bullshit antennae is always set to the highest sensitivity. He was at my company giving a talk on one of his books, an incredibly beautiful and generous person.

@@Kobe29261 so true. NNT is extremely sharp at detecting bs. He’s a hustler, gangster natural philosopher that understands reality and role human behavior plays in it!

So true. When he even addressed his love of writing, that did it for me.

@@Senecamarcus Gangster natural philosopher lol

Had to pause that and re-say it to myself when he said it. Very insightful.

True that, we've all been there. Some of us are actually still there. It's a blessing to get to do what you want from the beginning.

And the overwhelming majority of people in a capitalistic economy do thusly on a daily basis.

Its like a habit

@@christopherdennis4280 . . . because the system trains you from day one to fit in or be cast out; takes preparation and great courage to insist on a life of passion.

Congratulations - we are all trying to be like you!

This conviction is identical to the teaching of Stoicism philosophy.

Thanks, will have to check that out.

The practical theory of the differential is practially is different theory. I mean, it's not even even remotely related to the stuff he's talking about.

Nate Arnett Prove it using mathematics pls

Like all insights its very dangerous - if we took it seriously, half the world would walk away from soul-crushing work right now. There's a Quant who loves raising chickens - every day at work is a small suicide of his soul. More profundities in this interview than I can keep track off

She belongs to a small group of interviewers who read the books before the interview 😁

He never minces words - he always names names. Its how you know he's on top of his game - never says 'someone who'll remain unnamed', one of my favorite thinkers in the present age.

He's genius

Thought so too though not sure what caused it - Taleb for once feeling generous or her capacity to draw out some of the best in him. He really gets to the root of his own passion which is philosophy - the mathematics is just his way of showing the bean counters that he can play their game too.

@@unxformat5745 True🤗🥰

+1

Mine too! and i started to study his work right after finishing a degree in economics :D

@@lfsa86 lol 😂, what an irony. Nassim hates economists

@@companybroadcast2890 Yeah!!! Hence my comment. to be precise he hates economists forecasters.... and those who do not get randomness.... not all of them...

How so? - I've read it, but I am not sure if it would really take someone to the "Next Level"

dilanka It comes down to how you use his ideas in your business and life. You have to remember that a fool with a tool is still a fool. One guy reads “Hero with thousand faces” and makes billions the other guy reads it and writes a short review on Amazon. Its all about how you process information from a big and how you go about putting into use. I have read Anrifragile 4 times and every single time I get something useful out of it that I can apply in my business and life. Which book took you to next level? I have made shit ton using his ideas so for me its been helpful.

I read it several times and recommended it to most of my peers. As straight forward as the book is to me, it tends to be a bit too technical and philosophical for most people. It's only ideal for personalities that are inclined to think like Taleb. Most people simply don't understand the INCERTO.

@Marcielo Burzo Not only have I read it, I took a workshop with Nassim personally in addition to applying his stuff. I guess I have high standards.

@@Senecamarcus Napoleon Hill, Socrates.

clear interview ? "If someone comes with an investment proposal that looks like an investment proposal and is well elaborated, don't invest because they're trying to take advantage of you". Seriously ? Maybe at some point Taleb did science or anything solid, but now he's just doing sensationalism.

@@PavlinMavrodiev that is nitpicking....focus on the big picture

@@micw8443 The big picture is that due to Taleb's arrogance and sensationalism, he has found it useful for his personal fame to continuously engage in disparaging broad-brush dismissal of whole branches of science. Coupled with his extreme ego claims that allegedly he has found a way to revolutionalize our societies, make him simply unbearable to me. I say this as someone who has met him, attended his lectures and dare say possesses the math skills needed to understand his math. Not that a lot of math skills are required for that, but it helps. His exposé is always the same. Start from a very narrow domain (financial trading), tell a few stories of clever trading strategies that basically constitute risk hedging, draw a few sloppy curves with unreadably small annotations, and .... and that's it actually. What follows is a broad over-generalization and speculation about all aspects of life sprinkled with academia bashing. Anyone heard of any practical examples for how to build/design/improve our current political, economic and social systems so that they are 'anti-fragile' ? Is that even possible or desirable at the most fundamental levels of existence ? Is life anti-fragile in its nature ? But Nassim is above pondering on useless philosophical questions. So we then get the S-shaped curves and the ceramic cup that doesn't like earthquakes, but how can we use this in 'real' life, except in the domain of financial trading ? Can we at all ? These are questions that a real thinker of our time would strive to answer.

Pavlin Mavrodiev thank you

Pavlin Mavrodiev Just because he doesn’t give a step-by-step guide on how to create more anti-fragile systems in our lives, doesn’t mean he can’t. That’s just WYSIWYG. The What You See Is What You Get fallacy. If anything, I feel that he already gave the big picture for how to create more anti-fragile systems; all it takes is some extrapolating to your own life. I’ve got skin in the game towards facilitating more anti-fragility in my life, so all I can say is, “all the information you need to take action is already there”.

What is the tip? Can u mention here it or can say in which minutes of the video I can find it?

Patric M. Prove it using mathematics, preferably Ito’s Lemme. References to Minsky Moment is also welcome. Good luck!

Because it is so easy to have such a position where you have no skin in the game, in some respect it is almost like haven on earth - all the gains without any downsides.

And 80% of the world will ignore you because they don't know the difference apart from the caricature. This is where it got very heavy for me in this interview- where he talks about paying the price. Gauguin runs off to Tahiti and we say he's crazy but imagine a world where each man found the courage to not accept any price for his soul - like we all do now, most of us at least

@@Kobe29261 if you’re good you won’t be ignored my guy

@@rockymckay1705 Rocky - you must live in a very sophisticated city. If you have a passion for bonsai in Bangladesh you are in for a rough ride. My point should be obvious when you consider the lives of great men - most of them suffer in obscurity for decades until 'chance' finds them - this is true from Academia [Hume, Ramanujan] to art [DaVinci, Gauguin etc]. Me, I'd rather be lose with a chisel and marble but until I find the courage and|or means I must grind at my 9-5. Sure I could endure homelessness and 'pursue my passion' but I'd rather sleep indoors. Its not terrible but I know what he means by eating away at ones soul.

ALL of our top engineers in one of my former employers were like that. Didn't care about any dress code. Just delivered outstanding results. I believe their thinking was exactly as Taleb described. These guys were essentially irreplacable.

Explains our world; its not just the Politicians - 80? maybe 90% of the world are engaged in soul-corrupting work - I'm no exception

How long will you stretch that old guy. Let him retire now. He will have to read many of his books to engage with him.

:)

She became BJ vendor

ohh hell yeah ...i hope to have a wife like him hhhh

Cmon man higher your standards

His books don't read well at all - incredibly bloated and egotistical. That said, i think you are right about him.

he hates editors man, have you read any of his writings? the style is personal

M Sena Luphdika yes i have he hates editors but loves the royalties lol like most in life he built an audience and now monetizes it...some like his rhetoric and approach others not so much that’s what makes the world go around differing opinions

He says very clearly in his writing that he doesn’t write for people like you. He is disgusted by people who say things like “I’m sure his books have an editor” with no evidence or consequence for being wrong. The books don’t read well on purpose! It’s the message that’s important. Sorry you missed it.

Mark Leonard listen to yourself “the books don’t read well on purpose” lol surely you’re joking! keep drinking the kool aid...sorry you missed MY message

About ?

1% of 30 trillion is 300 billion. 1% of one trillion is 10 billion. Now, multiply.

Something around 1 billion. Lol

He doesn’t believe in iq but I guess 150

Lol he’s flamed the whole concept so hard on Twitter. He claims he did a test and was given an IQ 60.

@@christophersurnname9967 wtf? Really😂

@@companybroadcast2890 he was kidding of course.

Roy Wessbecher inspired from your post I’m immediately going out to purchase a juicy steak

@@georgemulford2910 To each his/her own. Don't catch the Meathead Virus (or cause another one).