You can recognize most people at the sound of their voices but very, very few at their vocabulary and sentences….

You can recognize most people at the sound of their voices but very, very few at their vocabulary and sentences.
– We are biologically so idiosyncratic and differentiated: out of 7 billion it is rare to find two persons who are exactly alike. But when you listen to conversation, opinions, and speeches people become almost identical to some group or a consensus, as if they didn’t want to be themselves any more.
– This is even more striking when you read articles and books. It is so hard to find something *not* generic, something that is not a linear combination of other things. It is even worse with academic papers (most academic papers are even worse… commoditized… I stop here).
– So when you look at yourself in the mirror remember that what’s inside your cranium should be a step closer in differentiation to what’s outside of it.

You can recognize most people at the sound of… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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