Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.