I have started reading the third book by Mr.Nassim Nicholas Taleb,called "Antil fragile". When in started reading this book couple of names popped into consciousness, namely Mr. Bertrand Russel and Mr. Howard Roark.
Mr.Bertrand Russel started writing in his seventies(what's the motivation for a person to start writing at this age?) and got a nobel prize for his book, " Principia Mathematica", wherein he writes that , the way he goes about his strategy is that he would be his own best critic. So that he wouldnot be surprised when any argument or criticism that he had not foreseen is thrown at him. The same quality is present in Mr.Taleb too.
Mr. Howard Roark is a character in a novel written by Ms. Ayn Rand in "Fountain Head"(a very unique book really , the like of which i hadn't read till now). Probably Mr.Taleb is very much like Mr. Howard Roark!.
Mr. Nassem Nicholas Taleb, being a trader in the stock market-where every transaction would have a buyer and seller. so while trading, one needs to have the perspective of the buyer too, if you are a seller. the same perspective, Mr.Taleb brings to his arguments while writing his books(At least the readers of his books should be cautioned about it,since many times in his arguments or justifications for his thoughts he flits from one side of the transaction(buyer or seller) to the other side(seller or buyer). The way he has structured his arguments in his books , one cannot go against him, since it would appear as one is not in the right side of the existing normative arrangements of societal life(every things is like on a knife's edge). The way the author cites many references to butress his arguments are exhilarating indeed, if you care to understand/if possible profit from, them. it should be privilege that one's is sharing the earth with such a kind of human.
I recommend Mr. Nassim Nicholas Taleb for Nobel prize, in Mathematics, or in Literature.
Literature is the verbal form of Mathematics and Mr. Taleb should atleast get for English Literature. Nobel prize would be embellished in being given to Mr. Taleb rather than the other way round
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