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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:20 am
This is what the writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb, whom I really like, calls "the fallacious narrative". We tell ourselves stories and we make mistakes and we don't do it on purpose. It's really our brain that deceives us. I invite you, if you are interested in knowing a little more about these subjects, to read Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who wrote The Black Sign, Wild Chance, Antifragile , in short, very very good books that make you think. Well, I don't agree with everything he says, but that's normal when you read this kind of book. But there you have it, he clearly explains what I just said, that we tell ourselves stories and that we make mistakes or that we invent... our brain invents parts.
And I see it very well on a personal level when people ask me questions about Français Authentique, about its evolution, about its origins, I have to go back to 2011, so that's 12 years now, it's huge. And they'll ask me questions: "So, when you created Français Authentique, what was your idea? And why did you do that? Why did you decide to do that?"
In fact, there are a lot of things that I forgot and I feel, in this kind of interview, that I almost feel obliged to give meaning to the whole thing, while ultimately chance has been a dominant part of the history of Français Authentique. This is another thing that Taleb explains in his writings, notably in Le hasard sauvage . There are a lot of things that happen to us by chance, a lot, a lot, but elements that are determining in fact.
will share the rest of your life at a party, you say to yourself: "It was really just chance that you met this person at this party". If you decide to quit your job to create Français south africa whatsapp number data Authentique, there are also reasons, but they are linked to chance.
So chance, that's what Taleb calls wild chance, well it's something that has a great importance in our lives. But we refuse to admit it. Our brain, it's not going to say: "Well I created Français Authentique a bit by chance and then I started making videos a bit by chance and I said to myself hey I'm going to make podcasts a bit by chance". Our brain, it's going to have a story, it's going to create a story that will help us on the one hand to remember lots of things and on the other hand to make sense of what we've forgotten.
And finally, our memories are a bit of a mix between facts, real things that happened well, and fiction, things that are purely invented. So, that doesn't mean that we are liars, it clearly doesn't mean that we lie voluntarily, but we can see that the stories that we tell ourselves sometimes take the place of the reality of certain experiences.
And so, when we understand that, when we know that our brain works like that, I think it's important to keep it in mind, it forces humility, and to use it. Why not rewrite certain parts of our history? It's not about lying to ourselves of course, but it's about giving the meaning we want to give to certain events, to certain mistakes for example that we made to learn better and to stress less.
And I see it very well on a personal level when people ask me questions about Français Authentique, about its evolution, about its origins, I have to go back to 2011, so that's 12 years now, it's huge. And they'll ask me questions: "So, when you created Français Authentique, what was your idea? And why did you do that? Why did you decide to do that?"
In fact, there are a lot of things that I forgot and I feel, in this kind of interview, that I almost feel obliged to give meaning to the whole thing, while ultimately chance has been a dominant part of the history of Français Authentique. This is another thing that Taleb explains in his writings, notably in Le hasard sauvage . There are a lot of things that happen to us by chance, a lot, a lot, but elements that are determining in fact.
will share the rest of your life at a party, you say to yourself: "It was really just chance that you met this person at this party". If you decide to quit your job to create Français south africa whatsapp number data Authentique, there are also reasons, but they are linked to chance.
So chance, that's what Taleb calls wild chance, well it's something that has a great importance in our lives. But we refuse to admit it. Our brain, it's not going to say: "Well I created Français Authentique a bit by chance and then I started making videos a bit by chance and I said to myself hey I'm going to make podcasts a bit by chance". Our brain, it's going to have a story, it's going to create a story that will help us on the one hand to remember lots of things and on the other hand to make sense of what we've forgotten.
And finally, our memories are a bit of a mix between facts, real things that happened well, and fiction, things that are purely invented. So, that doesn't mean that we are liars, it clearly doesn't mean that we lie voluntarily, but we can see that the stories that we tell ourselves sometimes take the place of the reality of certain experiences.
And so, when we understand that, when we know that our brain works like that, I think it's important to keep it in mind, it forces humility, and to use it. Why not rewrite certain parts of our history? It's not about lying to ourselves of course, but it's about giving the meaning we want to give to certain events, to certain mistakes for example that we made to learn better and to stress less.