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To: TobagoJack who wrote (64851)	7/23/2010 11:31:59 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 218163

For your entertainment and/or serious consideration, I bring you a few of NNTaleb's admonitions on how to conduct one's life. fooledbyrandomness.com Life's Barbells Barbells are more robust than monomodal strategies.) Walk most of the time, sprint as fast as you can on the occasion; never jog. Fast for long periods of famine, then feast; never diet. Endorse Nick Clegg & David Cameron, in combination, never labor. For social life, a linear combination of Fat Tony & philosophers outperforms the frequentation of middle brows. Go for city-states under loose empires, never nation-states. Be a flåneur, lounging most of the time; then work as intensely as possible for a maximum of one hour; never work at low intensity --the 4-Hour Workweek. Do nothing most of the time, then workout like a nut as intensely & unpredictably as possible. Invest mostly in close to no-risk, (cash inflation protected, 80-90%), and maximal risk securities (10-20%); never in medium risk. Read trashy gossip magazines and classics or sophisticated works; never the New York Times (or something even more aberrant, Newsweek). Talk to graduate students or the highest caliber scholars; never, never, never medium academics. Lose all your money, never half of it. Respect those who make a living lying down or standing up, never those who do so sitting down. Separate the holy and the profane. Do crazy things (break furniture once in a while), like the Greeks and stay "rational" in larger decisions. If you dislike someone, leave him alone or eliminate him; don't attack him verbally