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THE BED OF PROCRUSTES

THE BED OF PROCRUSTES

PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL APHORISMS

NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB

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PENGUIN
Year of publication:
2016
ISBN:
978-0-14-198502-2
Pages:
156
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A condensed guide to life, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes is an invaluable collection of aphorisms to help you navigate the modern world.

Second edition, revised and expanded Why are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredictable? In this brilliant book Nassim Nicholas Taleb distils his idiosyncratic wisdom to demolish our illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance and erudition against modern philistinism and phoniness. Only by accepting what we don't know, he shows, can we see the world as it really is.

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