People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist. - Michael Lewis - Quotesmemo.com

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Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness has to be retained. And this is not difficult: it is just that we have not tried it, that's all. It is like swimming: if you have not tried it, it looks very difficult; it looks very dangerous too. And you cannot believe how people can swim because you simply drown! But once you have tried a little bit it comes easily; it is very natural.

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Michael Lewis

People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.

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The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

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People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

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We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

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the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

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