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Antifragile Heuristic 34 (Barbell, Jensen’s Inequality): Underreact most of the time, overreact mercilessly on the occasion, going for the jugular, and people will will leave you alone. Fughetabout “measured” reactions. Be unpredictable.
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From FBR (2001). “This point has applications in evolutionary biology, evolutionary game theory, and conflict situations. A mild degree of unpredictability in your behavior can help you to protect yourself in situations of conflict. Say you always have the same threshold of reactions. You take a set level of abuse before getting into a rage and punching the offender in the nose. Such predictability will allow people to take advantage of you up to that well-known trigger point and stop there. But if you randomize your trigger point, sometimes overreacting at the slightest joke, people will not know in advance how far they can push you. The same applies to governments in conflicts: They need to convince their adversaries that they are crazy enough to sometimes overreact to a small peccadillo. Even the magnitude of their reaction should be hard to foretell. Unpredictability is a strong deterrent.
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From FBR (2001). “This point has applications in evolutionary biology, evolutionary game theory, and conflict situations. A mild degree of unpredictability in your behavior can help you to protect yourself in situations of conflict. Say you always have the same threshold of reactions. You take a set level of abuse before getting into a rage and punching the offender in the nose. Such predictability will allow people to take advantage of you up to that well-known trigger point and stop there. But if you randomize your trigger point, sometimes overreacting at the slightest joke, people will not know in advance how far they can push you. The same applies to governments in conflicts: They need to convince their adversaries that they are crazy enough to sometimes overreact to a small peccadillo. Even the magnitude of their reaction should be hard to foretell. Unpredictability is a strong deterrent.
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| — | N.N.Taleb |
L’amore nasce per appetito, dura per fame e muore per sazietà.
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Alessandro Morandotti ——- Com’è che io ho sempre fame? ;-) |
“Se si insegnasse la bellezza alla gente, la si fornirebbe di un’arma contro la rassegnazione, la paura e l’omertà. All’esistenza di orrendi palazzi sorti all’improvviso con tutto il loro squallore, da operazioni speculative, ci si abitua con pronta facilità, si mettono le tendine alle finestre, le piante sul davanzale, e presto ci si dimentica di come erano quei luoghi prima, ed ogni cosa, per il solo fatto che è così, pare dover essere così da sempre e per sempre. È per questo che bisognerebbe educare la gente alla bellezza: perché in uomini e donne non si insinui più l’abitudine e la rassegnazione ma rimangano sempre vivi la curiosità e lo stupore”
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Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. […] A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
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| — | Rachel Naomi Remen (via littlemiss) |
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.
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(Medical Xpress)âA research team from the Evolution and Ecology Research Centre at the University of New South Wales has found that women find men most attractive when they have approximately ten days of beard growth. In their paper published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, the team describes …
