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The Bed of Procrustes
- Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
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Publisher's Summary
By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects - modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.
Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.
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- pndt
- 02-05-23
condensed milk
needs to be savoured slowly
see past all that sneering
very good narration too
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- CA Ram Pavan Kumar
- 12-03-23
Full of wit and wisdom
This book is a summary of quoting wit and wisdom. The author thoroughly nudges human fantasies. He distinguished our classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition with the novel illnesses of nerdiness, materialism, and deception.
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- Warrior99
- 02-02-23
Very good
This must be read again and again! Recommended for all seekers to read. All the best!
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- adarsh
- 06-12-21
amazing
amazing, people should buy book and not audio ..... I am buying one as I want to read when I want
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- Jemshid
- 26-09-21
Should have a hard copy
I am getting a hard copy for home and work. A good book to.look at and pick a line once in a while.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-09-21
audio not clear
Good subject, but has audio recording issues. the first word of every sentence was not heard clearly.
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- jss
- 01-04-19
too short
more of an essay. not a book.
skip if you've read the authors other works
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- Himansu Nayak
- 01-12-18
blin-spots
it's show you a mirror...
compel you to see different perspective of life..
how we are wrong about most of the things.
To read and understand the contents of this book one needs a little bit of maturity.
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