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Time discounting: “A bird in the hand is better than ten on the tree.”*9 (Levantine proverb)

Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Scrooge doesn’t change because he’s frightened – he changes because he’s haunted. We can be frightened of gaining weight, but that alone probably won’t cause us to change our diet. Haunting is different. It makes us feel – makes us alive to – some fact about the world, some piece of information, that we’re trying to avoid.

The Examined Life

Stephen Grosz

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