What Nassim Nicholas Taleb thinks about ambition

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Former option trader and risk analyst, now a distinguished professor at NYU. Author of the Incerto essay series, including The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.

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   Our readingMild success can come from skill and labor; wild success comes from variance

   Their wordsMild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

   ↗Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Random House, 2005 edition; copyright 2004)archive.org All 4 from this book