Today we’re talking about being shrewd to overcome a lack of your own intelligence, and why idiots sometimes do better than the experts and theorists!

Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his ideas to learning, education and careers.

Full blog post summarsing the ideas in this podcast series.

https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/

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Nassim Taleb is a noteworthy writer and thinker. He explores ideas like uncertainty, randomness and risk... and over the next few episodes, we’re going to apply these ideas to learning, education and career.

Today, we kick off a conversation with Luke about why Taleb is important, and what the hell risk and uncertainty have to do with helping us unlock our inner Da Vinci... what Taleb gives is a fundamentally different story about ‘success’, and I’m excited to dive into it using powerful ideas from his book Antifragile.

Full blog post on the relevance of Taleb to Education: https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/02/applying-antifragile-and-nassim-talebs-ideas-to-education-learning-and-career/

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Blog Version of today’s episode: https://withjoewehbe.com/2021/12/18/what-is-it-that-im-trying-to-do/

A reflection of my overarching goals here. 

These are the Doors I wish to open...

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Is there a Da Vinci in everyone?

Common pitfalls

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Happy New Year! To celebrate the start of 2022, I wanted to kick off with a few special types of episodes.

Top 5 Lines of Wisdom that have influenced me:

5 — 'You might want to think about whether you want a life to envy or a life to admire.' — Jim Collins

4 — Viktor Frankl on self transcendence “The more one forgets himself--by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love--the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.”

3 — Buckminster Fuller "the search for the principles governing the universe and help advance the evolution of humanity in accordance with them ... finding ways of doing more with less to the end that all people everywhere can have more and more"

2 — ‘Focus on what you have, you'll gain what you lack. Focus on what you lack, you'll lose what you have’ — Greg McKeown

1 — ‘I only do what only I can do’ — Jack Delosa

BONUS

Some men see things as they are and ask, ""Why?"" I dream things that never were and ask, ""Why not?"" — George Bernard Shaw

Notes:

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Six Common Use Cases:

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Examples of the capabilities of incredible young people in this day and age... if they can already do this, why do they need to go to university? 

Examples of teenage entrepreneurs referenced in this show.

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My decision to go to university:

Education Conveyor Belt:

Alan Watts: Life Is Not A Journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBpaUICxEhk

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