Quotes About Challenges

I am never bothered by normal people; it is the bull***tter in the "intellectual" profession who bothers me.

we know a lot more what is wrong than what is right

That awareness of a problem does not mean much—particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.

soccer moms try to eliminate the trial and error, the antifragility, from children's lives

Black Swan effects are necessarily increasing, as a result of complexity, interdependence between parts, globalization, and the beastly thing called "efficiency" that makes people now sail too close to the wind.

The world is getting less and less predictable, and we rely more and more on technologies that have errors and interactions that are harder to estimate, let alone predict.

separating some people from their fortune would simplify their lives and bring great benefits in the form of healthy stressors.

we should first make things more robust to defects and forecast errors, or even exploit these errors, making lemonade out of the lemons.

We are gliding into disorder, but not necessarily bad disorder. This implies that we will see more periods of calm and stability, with most problems concentrated into a small number of Black Swans.

the last fifty years, the ten most extreme days in the financial markets represent half the returns. Ten days in fifty years. Meanwhile, we are mired in chitchat.

because they underestimate the impact of the highly improbable

George Soros, a complex man who thrived on rare events

la conciencia de un problema no significa mucho, sobre todo cuando están en juego intereses personales o instituciones interesadas.

the easier it was to make money.

Los emprendedores son unos héroes en nuestra sociedad. Fracasan por el resto de nosotros

After things got bad for him, they somehow recovered by some invisible hand, and he was led to believe that it was his intrinsic property to recover from hardships by running every time into a new opportunity. He

these careers face a continuous supply of these stressors that make them adjust opportunistically.

but errors are costlier and delays are considerably longer than in the past.

But no problem; the people you meet when riding high are also those you meet when riding low, and I saw the fellow getting some (more subtle) abuse from the same accountant before he got fired, as he eventually ran out of luck. You are free—but only as free as your last trade. As we saw with Ahiqar's wild ass, freedom is never free.

Life always seems to have worries, even if you own a big and beautiful house on the best street in town.

You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.

No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot.

Sometimes the path to higher self-esteem is lonely and frightening. We cannot fully know in advance how much more satisfying our lives will be. But the more we are willing to experience and accept the many aspects of who we are, the richer our inner worlds, the greater our resources, the more appropriate we feel to the challenges and opportunities of life. Also, it is more likely that we will find - or create - a style of existence that will meet our individual needs.

If his or her upbringing is successful, the young man or woman will have evolved out of that dependency into a self-respecting and self-responsible human being who is able to respond to the challenges of life competently and enthusiastically.