/lit/ - Literature

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Imagine reading unlindy books.
Fucking imbeciles.

>Your overstuffed library isn't a sign of failure or ignorance, it's a badge of honor.
>That's the argument author and statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb makes in his bestseller The Black Swan.
>Taleb kicks off his musings with an anecdote about the legendary library of Italian writer Umberto Eco, which contained a jaw-dropping 30,000 volumes.
>Did Eco actually read all those books? Of course not, but that wasn't the point of surrounding himself with so much potential but as-yet-unrealized knowledge. By providing a constant reminder of all the things he didn't know, Eco's library kept him intellectually hungry and perpetually curious. An ever-growing collection of books you haven't yet read can do the same for you, Taleb writes:
>"A private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary."
>An antilibrary is a powerful reminder of your limitations — the vast quantity of things you don't know, half-know, or will one day realize you're wrong about. By living with that reminder daily you can nudge yourself toward the kind of intellectual humility that improves decision-making and drives learning.
>"People don't walk around with anti-résumés telling you what they have not studied or experienced (it's the job of their competitors to do that), but it would be nice if they did," Taleb claims.
>Why? Perhaps because it is a well-known psychological fact that it's the most incompetent who are the most confident of their abilities and the most intelligent who are full of doubt. (Really. It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect.) It's equally well established that the more readily you admit you don't know things, the faster you learn.
>So stop beating yourself up for buying too many books or for having a to-read list that you could never get through in three lifetimes. All those books you haven't read are indeed a sign of your ignorance. But if you know how ignorant you are, you're way ahead of the vast majority of other people.

You're just mistaking absence of evidence for evidence of absence.

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>Dr. Taleb

Dropped. I bet you're a total Fragilista who thinks he can teach the birds how to fly and is unable to understand the Lindy effect, this heuristic that can be explained in one paragraph where I boast about my personal accomplishments and tell personal stories.