Nassim Taleb: Difficulty Wakes up The Genius

Find your “goldilocks zone”

Thomas Oppong
Personal Growth
Published in
4 min readJan 4, 2024

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“This too shall pass.”

It’s my mantra when things get tough. And I have to keep moving. When I need to push myself, I step outside “default mode thinking.”

Figuring things out wakes up the brain.

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Thomas Oppong
Personal Growth

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