All tagged Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You Too Are a Butterfly – Why We Are Powerless and Yet a Lot more Powerful Than We Think

In the eye of giant issues like a global pandemic, social injustice, institutional racism, or climate change, it is easy to feel powerless. It seems that our voices, even our votes do not matter. We are all just small potatoes.

And it is true; it is unlikely that any of us will cause a revolution or change the course of the world significantly. But it would be too easy and convenient to give up and accept everything around us as it is. In many ways, we are powerless and yet powerful.