This document contains a collection of quotes from various books, articles, and podcasts that the author Yoann Lopez encountered in 2022. The quotes cover a wide range of topics related to human behavior, psychology, history, rationality, and more. The author aims to revisit the quotes periodically to absorb their wisdom.

1. Key Learnings 2022
Yoann Lopez

2. • These are quotes from books/articles/podcasts / etc. I read
or listened to in 2022
• Sometimes I forgot the author, unfortunately. 😞
• I aim to read them from time to time to “absorb” their
wisdom.

3. Man suffers onlv because he takes
seriously what the gods made for
fun.
- Alan Watts

4. The future is already here.
It’s just not evenly
distributed yet.
- William Gibson

5. Fear is a natural reaction to
moving closer to the truth.
- Pema Chodron

6. It is far easier to
fi
gure out if
something is fragile than to
predict the occurrence of an
event that may harm it.
– Nassim Taleb

7. Survival is the ultimate
performance measure.
– Vicki TenHaken

8. It is dif
fi
cult to remove by
logic an idea not placed there
by logic in the
fi
rst place.
– Gordon Livingston

9. The best arguments in the
world won’t change a single
person’s mind. The only thing
that can do that is a good story.
- Richard Powers

10. All behavior makes sense
with enough information.
– Unknown.

11. Psychology is a theory of human
behavior. Philosophy is an ideal
of human behavior. History is a
record of human behavior.
– Will Durant

12. If something looks irrational –
and has been so for a long
time – odds are you have a
wrong de
fi
nition of rationality.
– Taleb

13. If you want these crazy ideas
and these crazy stages, this
crazy music, and this crazy way
of thinking, there’s a chance it
might come from a crazy person.
- Kanye West

14. I learned early that people
will admire your work more
if they are not jealous of
you.
– Benjamin Franklin

15. History as usually written is
quite different from history as
usually lived. The historian
records the exceptional because
it is interesting.
– Will Durant

16. The secret to doing good
research is always to be a little
underemployed. You waste
years by not being able to waste
hours.
– Amos Tversky

17. There is no sadder sight
than a young pessimist.
– Twain