The Four Bs: Brain, Balls, Brawn, and Business Sense.
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You can have 4 out of 4 (Thales), 3 out of 4 (Plato, who had poor practical sense), 2 out of 4 (most great scientists and great businesspersons), 1 out of 4 (the typical "incremental" modern academics, or people you tend to find in jail), or 0 out of 4 (journalists).
(Exception for journalists who take personal risks, of course. Also the "balls" tends to be present in women at least as often as in men).
NIcholas Nassim Taleb
The Four Bs
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Re: The Four Bs
Needs to be 5. Bullshit is missing.


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