No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.

“No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is right frame of your mind, your state of mind, your mindset and emotion. It is a game of choice as well as decision making and your educated guess.

By the same token there’s really nothing that you can guess at that you know nothing about.

The quality of our lives is the sum of decision quality plus luck and our decision will also be heavily influenced by randomness.

An expert in any field will have an advantage over a rookie. But neither the veteran nor the rookie can be sure what the next flip will look like. The veteran will just have a better guess.

If we misrepresent the world at the extremes of right and wrong, with no shades of grey in between, our ability to make good choices—choices about how we are supposed to be allocating our resources, what kind of decisions we are supposed to be making, and what kind of actions we are supposed to be taking—will suffer.

Decisions are bets on the future, and they aren’t right or wrong based on whether they turn out well on any particular iteration. An unwanted result doesn’t make our decision wrong if we thought about the alternatives and probabilities in advance and allocated our resources accordingly.

Good wine needs no bush.

Good wine needs no bush, results speak for themselves and they speak volumes.

Relax and take it easy, it's part and parcel of life.

Don't have to talk until got Dragon and got Phoenix.

ROFLMAO

A person's actions will tell you everything you need to know.

Besides a person's actions will tell you everything you need to know. You can also look out for other tell tell signs :-

viz.

His facial expression.

The tone of his voice.

Kinetic.

Gesture.

He can hide his feelings, but he forgot that his eyes speak.

Just by the way he speaks and acts we are able to pick up on the social cues.

If you want to his mind, listen to his words. If you want to know his heart, watch his actions.

Characterize by his actions and you will never be fooled by his words.

It is manifested in his speech pattern.

On most occasion it's written all over his face.

It can be observed either with bare eyes or measured by physiological sensors.

His character is basically a composite of his habits.

Facial expression, tone of the voice, body and hand gestures, eye contact, speech pattern and habits.

The nonverbal messages are more powerful than the actual words he speaks. We’ve all heard, “It’s not so much what is said, but how he says it.” Ask yourself if his body language matches the message he wants to share. Pay attention to his facial expression, his hand gestures, and his eye contact.

Yes indeed, you can observe a lot just by just watching.

The above complied By Mangocharlie Anthony TW Tan.

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Re: School of hard knocks.

Re: School of hard knocks.

As humans, we survive by learning. Over the years our research has taught us many things, some things that were useful immediately and some things that were not useful until years after they were learned.

Realize that life is a school and we are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons we learn will last a lifetime.

Anything and everything in life, if we learn something in the school of hard knocks, we learn it as a result of difficult or unpleasant experiences.

Life isn't that easy. It takes a lot to keep walking through the path of life. However, down the line, as you keep growing up, you will be able to realize that this world is actually very mean. There’s no space for the ones who are soft-hearted and emotional.