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Taleb has to be one of the most narcissistic people in the world. I remember reading "The Art of Thinking Clearly" by Rolf Dobelli, and there's a sentence in o
by deanebarker 6y ago
Taleb has to be one of the most narcissistic people in the world.
I remember reading "The Art of Thinking Clearly" by Rolf Dobelli, and there's a sentence in one of the chapters where says something like "no one could have predicted to 2007 housing crash (except Nassim Taleb)." Well, turns out that Dobelli is a "protege" of Taleb, and I can just see Taleb editing this manuscript and cajoling Dobelli into adding the parenthetical.
As such, I break out in hives whenever Taleb's name comes up. Even if he's right some of the time, I still can't listen to a thing he says.
- frank2 6y ago(I don't know Taleb personally.) One of my parents is narcissistic. I believe that Trump is narcissistic, er, more narcissistic than .97 of the population -- let us say the US population since that is the only country I've lived in. William Shatner is more narcissistic than .99 of the US population. Taleb strikes me as not particularly narcissistic. He does strike me as very low (02 percentile or lower) in trait agreeableness.