“Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of
"The Black Swan" and one of the foremost thinkers of our time,
reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger
when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when
someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress,
disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls
"antifragile" is that category of things that not only gain from
chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. In "The Black Swan,
"Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie
almost everything about our world. In "Antifragile, " Taleb stands
uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that
things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the
resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the
antifragile gets better and better. Furthermore, the antifragile is immune to
prediction errors and protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state
better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we call
"efficient" not efficient at all? Why do government responses and
social policies protect the strong and hurt the weak? Why should you write your
resignation letter before even starting on the job? How did the sinking of the
"Titanic" save lives? The book spans innovation by trial and error,
life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic
systems, and medicine. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat
Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek,
Semitic, and medieval sources, are loud and clear. "Antifragile" is a
blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic,
Taleb's message is revolutionary: The antifragile, and only the antifragile,
will make it.” Praise for "Antifragile" "Taleb takes on
everything from the mistakes of modern architecture to the dangers of
meddlesome doctors and how overrated formal education is. . . . An ambitious
and thought-provoking read . . . highly entertaining."--"The
Economist"
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