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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms Nassim Nicholas Taleb Format: Hardcover, 128pp. ISBN: 9781400069972 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: November 30, 2010 Average Customer Review: For Bulk Orders Call: 626-441-2024 Description and Reviews From The Publisher: By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery. Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness. Reader's Index Send us your favorite quotes or passages from this book. • People reserve standard compliments for those who do not threaten their pride; the others they often praise by calling “arrogant.” Pg. 14 About the Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet. A former trader, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, which has spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and has become an intellectual, social, and cultural touchstone. Find Items On Similar Subjects The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable |
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