Quotes About Balance

those who live under a self-imposed pressure to be optimal in their enjoyment of things suffer a measure of distress.

The world is split between those who don't know how to start making money and those who don't know when to stop.

They love precision at the expense of applicability.

We saw the trade-off between the interests of the collective and those of the individual.

Option = asymmetry + rationality

As we saw, nature has a filter to keep the good baby and get rid of the bad.

The record shows that, for society, the richer we become, the harder it gets to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

from cramming my day with appointments

system that overcompensates is necessarily in overshooting mode

This example not only gives us an idea of harm done by those who intervene, but, worse, it illustrates the lack of awareness of the need to look for a break-even point between benefits and harm.

People can only be social friends if they don't try to upstage or outsmart one another.

establishing the principle that you need to eat what you feed others.

Most people in the real world don't obsess over it.

What they call play (gym, travel, sports) looks like work; the harder they try, the more captive they are.

This dovetails into the "barbell" strategy of taking maximum exposure to the positive Black Swans while remaining paranoid about the negative ones.

The good is mostly in the absence of bad";

Even trial and error are a form of barbell.

Stay human, take as much as you can, under the condition that you give more than you take.

anything that takes you away from the doctor and allows you to do nothing (hence gives nature a chance to do its work) will be beneficial.

I would like the option of having neither.

A ESTRATÉGIA BARBELL DE SÊNECA Isso nos leva à solução

Indeed, Georges Simenon, one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, only wrote sixty days a year, with three hundred days spent "doing nothing." He published more than two hundred novels.

Because deprivation is a stressor—and we know what stressors do when allowed adequate recovery.

I am renewable, not humanity or the ecosystem.