The Quotable Antidote 7.27.2011

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"My teacher told me that practice makes perfect.  My mother told me that nobody's perfect. So I stopped practicing." - Comedian Steven Wright

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It's funny, but how do you really know when to cut your losses?  How can you tell when your efforts will never achieve your endstate?  It has to do with our 'loss' aversion and i'll get into that later.


Song of the Day
In honor of not practing the trumpet enough in 6th grade, i'll let the master play it.  The song of the day is Miles Davis' "So What".