Quotes About Adaptability

Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news.

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds—so those who delay developing their theories are better off. When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

the most successful businesses are precisely those that know how to work around inherent unpredictability and even exploit it.

Simply, do not be narrow-minded.

Why anything with optionality has a long-term advantage

The more uncertainty, the more role for optionality to kick in, and the more you will outperform.

The strategy for the discoverers and entrepreneurs is to rely less on top-down planning and focus on maximum tinkering and recognizing opportunities when they present themselves.

I want to be broadly right rather than precisely wrong.

One has the illusion of stability, but is fragile; the other one the illusion of variability, but is robust and even antifragile.

those who can drive manual shifts can always drive automatic, but the reverse is not true.

my antidote to Black Swans is precisely to be noncommoditized in my thinking. But

It is said that the successful organization of the future will be above all a learning organization. It can equally be said that it will be an organization geared to self-esteem.

Flexibility. To be flexible is to be able to respond to change without inappropriate attachments binding one to the past.

Flexibility, in contrast, is the natural consequence of self-esteem. A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet, unemcumbered by irrelevant attachments, able to respond quickly to novelty because it is open to seeing.

the kind of people who can't bend without breaking

Lev smiles. Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold

Book smarts are nice like heelies are nice: They'll only get you so far, until you have to use your freaking feet. In fight-or-flight situations it's the street smarts that will get you out alive.

a pawn can be as valuable as a knight in the right circumstance

I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.

La monotonia, un lavoro fisso che non portava a niente, anime che cercavano altre anime per sfuggire ad imbarazzanti silenzi ed una città senza stimoli che cercava di camuffare la noia dietro falsi sorrisi, musica assordante e belle gambe inavvicinabili. Niente di buono. Ma era incredibile come la gente riusciva ad adattarsi

I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.

My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

Hold everything loosely.

Bureaucracies excel at performing tasks that must be done consistently whether the people assigned to them are brilliant performers or bumbling fools. You can't always count on having Albert Einstein in the patent office, so you design its procedures to work even if you hire Mr. Bean by mistake.