bookNov 27, 2012Closed access

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Abstract

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. In Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our Here Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile are things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan Erudite,…

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Keywords
  • Black swan theory
  • Blueprint
  • History
  • Order (exchange)
  • Psychology
  • Economics
  • Art
  • Philosophy
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