“The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference”

—  Nassim Nicholas Taleb , book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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