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Habits Compound
The Matthew effect applies to habits and personal development, meaning they compound.
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Win the Greatest Set of All Possible Games
And life is not simply a game, but a series of games, each of which has something in common (whatever defines a game) and something unique (or there…
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Correlation Is Not the Same as Causation
Correlation is not the same as causation, as the potential cause can go both ways.
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September 2024

Skin in the Game
Which brings us to the largest fragilizer of society, and greatest generator of crises, absence of “skin in the game.” Some become antifragile at the…
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Ask What Is Missing to Avoid Survivorship Bias
It's often easy to focus only on what is in front of you, on the things that survived.
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Best Way to Change the World Is to Start With Yourself
It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world—a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one—is to fix yourself, as we discussed in Rule 6.
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Voluntary Action Is More Powerful Than Compelled Action
No matter the path that you choose, there will always be suffering involved.
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Randomness Is Needed to Escape Local Maximums
In order to escape local maximums, we need to introduce randomness.
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Avoid Getting Stuck in Local Maximums
Hill climbing involves finding the highest hill by aiming up, taking small steps and iterating in each direction until you find a peak.
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Assume Others Know Something You Do Not
So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking.
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Keep It Simple
Complexity does not necessarily make it more useful and may even have the opposite effect.
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Be Interested to Be Interesting
Become genuinely interested and curious in other people and in what they are saying.
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