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People often accept that a financial strategy with a small chance of success is not necessarily a bad one as long as the success is large enough to justify it. For a spate of psychological reasons, however, people have difficulty carrying out such a strategy, simply because it requires a combination of belief, a capacity for delayed gratification, and the willingness to be spat upon by clients without blinking.
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Transformers would probably win a contest for a device that is as common and as indispensable for the modern world as it is absent from public consciousness (Coltman 1988).
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
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