Nassim Taleb on Living a Good Life in an Age of Volatility

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Hello, Odd Lots listeners. You are listening to another episode that was recorded live in New York City at our event on June 26. This time, it's with the one and only Nassim Nicholas Taleb, distinguished scientist and advisor at Universal Investments.

Yep. We talked to him about how to live a good life in a time of immense volatility. Take a listen. Nassim, what's your definition of a good life? What should we be aiming for?

I mean, the the a lot of people think that we're programmed to be happy and stuff like that. In fact, we're programmed to feel useful. That's a good life. Or, I mean, you don't have to be a martyr to feel useful. As a matter of fact, martyrs go too far. And if you look at their deaths typically in history, you realize it's could have waited a decade, and the problem was to solve itself by itself. Right? So think of all the wars. And, hey. You know? But the Vietnam War took care of itself or the rest. So whatever. So so let's forget about martyrdom except, of course, in narrow cases where you s