They actually spent time wondering how people who had been so sensationally right {i.e., they themselves} could preserve the capacity for diffidence and doubt and uncertainty that had enabled them to be right. The more sure you were of yourself and your judgment, the harder it was to find opportunities premised on the notion that you were, in the end, probably wrong. The
( Michael Lewis )
[ The Big Short: Inside the ]
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