A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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You probably know the name of Rosa Parks. You probably know that her refusal to move to the colored section in the back of a city bus sparked the Montgomery bus boycotts, one of the pivotal moments in the American civil rights movement.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

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Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

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