Book: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader, hedge fund manager, mathematics professor, and a philosopher of randomness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb does a great job of elaborating on an important truth of life - “You dont know that you dont know”! If you wish to know whether you (or people around you) are smart or simply lucky, this book can help you!
His takes pleasure in ” teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who don’t have the courage to sometimes say: I don’t know….”
Read an exerpt here.
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