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“If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.”

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11539369

Every time somebody quotes Taleb on this board I have this really weird sequence where I think the thing he's saying sounds stupid, and then I think some more and feel like it sounds pretty intelligent, and then I think about it even more and it goes back to sounding stupid again.

>> No.11539395

Can't you just flip this around and say that if you are coming up with multiple reasons to not do something, you should do it?
So unless the choice is obvious, always do the opposite of what you're leaning towards??

>> No.11539402

>come up with bad reason to do x, don't do it
>come up with better reason to do x, now I can't do it
Am I misunderstanding something?

>> No.11539411

>>11539402
everything

>> No.11539419

>>11539369
This what you're experiencing approximately:
>This is counterintuitive
>This is actually pretty insightful
>This is not an absolute law, more of a heuristic

>> No.11539774

Why is he getting shilled here? I don't know anything about him. I want to read him if anons are genuinely interested in him, but I can't tell.

>> No.11540100

>>11539353
What the fuck is this idiocy