A Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Against Entrapment Procrastination Soul

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese - Scientist
Born: 1960

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

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