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The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.

Elie Wiesel (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them.

Neale Donald Walsch (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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The Black Swan Theory of Events developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain:

I) The disproportionate role of high-profile, hard-to-predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations in history, science, finance, and technology.

2) The non-computability of the probability of the consequential rare events using scientific methods (owing to the very nature of small probabilities).

3) The psychological biases that blind people, both individually and collectively, to uncertainty and to a rare event's massive role in historical affairs.

"What we call here a Black Swan (and capitalize it) is an event with the following three attributes. I) It is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. 2) It carries an extreme 'impact'. 3) In spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.

I stop and summarize the triplet: rarity, extreme 'impact', and retrospective (though not prospective) predictability. A small number of Black Swans explains almost everything in our world, from the success of ideas and religions, to the dynamics of historical events, to elements of our own personal lives."

"I don't particularly care about the usual. If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life. Can you assess the danger a criminal poses by examining only what he does on an ordinary day? Can we understand health without considering wild diseases and epidemics? Indeed the normal is often irrelevant. Almost everything in social life is produced by rare but consequential shocks and jumps; all the while almost everything studied about social life focuses on the 'normal,' particularly with 'bell curve' methods of inference that tell you close to nothing. Why? Because the bell curve ignores large deviations, cannot handle them, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty. Its nickname in this book is GIF, Great Intellectual Fraud."

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“Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves.”

— Matt Kahn

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“Don’t ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday. Let it go.”

— Unknown

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A life spent making mistakes is more honorable than a life spent doing nothing.

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“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad – at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder)

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The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited or erased; it can only be accepted.

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The online academic resource has made over 6,000 ebooks and over 150 journals accessible without the need for an online login.

Online academic resource JSTOR has announced it is making its database accessible to the public, amid the widespread closure of universities across the world due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The database, frequently used by university students for research and essay work, announced on Twitter today that it has made over 6,000 ebooks and over 150 journals accessible without the need for an online login.

Previously, students needed a university login to access these resources.

This is the first time that the database has been openly accessible to non-subscribers.

The database is also working to expand on the amount of free content available online to students accessing the database through their subscribed universities.