Quotes About Survival

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

What did not kill me did not make me stronger, but spared me because i am stronger than others; but it killed others and the average population is now stronger because the weak are gone.

cualquier cosa atrapada en la planificación tiende a fracasar, precisamente, a causa de estos atributos: es un mito que la planificación ayude a las grandes empresas porque, como hemos visto, el mundo es demasiado aleatorio e imprevisible para basar una política en la visibilidad del futuro. Lo que sobrevive surge de la interacción entre la adaptabilidad y algunas condiciones del entorno.

An idea does not survive because it is better than the competition, but rather because the person who holds it has survived! Accordingly

size hurts you at times of stress; it is not a good idea to be large during difficult times.

Large animals are more fragile to shocks than small ones—

People go to business school to learn how to do well while ensuring their survival—but what the economy, as a collective, wants them to do is to not survive, rather to take a lot, a lot of imprudent risks themselves and be blinded by the odds. Their respective industries improve from failure to failure

The distribution was massively skewed, with the bulk of the deaths coming from birth and childhood mortality.

While a ten-year survival rate for a trader is in the single digits, that of a risk manager is close to 100%).

Anything that hinders one's survival at an individual, collective, tribal, or general level is, to me, irrational.

When you consider beliefs in evolutionary terms, do not look at how they compete with each other, but consider the survival of the populations that have them.

Rationality does not depend on explicit verbalistic explanatory factors; it is only what aids survival, what avoids ruin.

time is equivalent to disorder, and resistance to the ravages of time, that is, what we gloriously call survival, is the ability to handle disorder.

Ricordate questa massima: non sto dicendo che le tecnologie non invecchiano, ma solo che le tecnologie che tendevano a invecchiare sono già morte.

Your life came under a serious threat but, having survived it, you retrospectively underestimate how risky the situation actually was.

Median means roughly that 50% of the people die before eight months and 50% survive longer than eight months. But those who survive would live considerably longer, generally going about life just like a regular person and fulfilling the average 73.4 or so years predicted by insurance mortality tables. There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long.

Lindy" is what ages in reverse, i.e., its life expectancy lengthens with time

humans may have an instinct to procrastinate only when no life is in danger.

it makes them much less dependent on economic forecasts. This allowed them to shrug off later crises.2

In practice, it is done by threshold, for ease of execution, not complicated rules: you start betting aggressively whenever you have a profit, never when you have a deficit, as if a switch was turned on or off. This method is practiced by probably every single trader who has survived.

So many instincts drive us.

I am renewable, not humanity or the ecosystem.

Now, if you run away, all you need to be is just faster than me, not faster than the animal.

So the antifragile can lose for a long time with impunity, so long as he happens to be right once; for the fragile, a single loss can be terminal.