"Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile...
An intelligent life is all about such emotional positioning to eliminate the sting of harm, which as we saw is done by mentally writing off belongings so one does not feel any pain from losses. The volatility of the world no longer affects you negatively.
The modern stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistake into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
...invest in good actions. Things can be taken away from us - not good deeds and acts of virtue."
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile, p154-156
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