Rohit

“For studying courage in textbooks doesn’t make you any more courageous than eating cow meat makes you bovine. By some mysterious mental mechanism, people fail to realize that the principal thing you can learn from a professor is how to be a professor—and the chief thing you can learn from, say, a life coach or inspirational speaker is how to become a life coach or inspirational speaker. So remember that the heroes of history were not classicists and library rats, those people who live vicariously in their texts. They were people of deeds and had to be endowed with the spirit of risk taking”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Your body drives you to eat several grams of salt (around 8–10 grams, equal to 3,000–4,000 milligrams of sodium) every day to remain in homeostasis, an optimal state in which you put the least amount of stress on the body.”
― James DiNicolantonio, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got it All Wrong and How Eating More Might Save Your Life

“Start by being nice to every person you meet. But if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life