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Excerpt from HuffPost Live -- "The basic psychological point that I think is the crux of our article is that human psychology is as follows: There's a wonderful book by Nassim Taleb called 'Anti-Fragile.' It's about things that actually get stronger when you bump 'em around. My first book was on ancient wisdom and the ancients all got this one right. So here's a quote from Mencius, the ancient Chinese philosopher: 'When heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man, it will exercise his mind with suffering, subject his sinews and bones to hard work, expose his body to hunger,' et cetera... The point is, people are anti-fragile. You have to give them trials and tests. They have to suffer, they have to overcome it. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

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