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    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Book Summary
    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Book Summary
    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Book Summary
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    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Book Summary

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    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Book Summary

    ORIGINAL BOOK DESCRIPTION:

    Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of Procrustes.

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDean Bokhari
    Release dateApr 19, 2019
    ISBN9780463154335
    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Book Summary
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    Dean Bokhari

    Dean Bokhari is an author, motivational speaker, TV and podcast host. Learn more + connect with Dean Bokhari at: https://DeanBokhari.com

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      Decent summary but like the other review said, saved me time reading the book-which would have been a huge waste of time. Not sure why this book was made, seems pretty pointless.
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      It's a very good summary of the book. After reading this, i can't wait to read the book!!!
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      Good summary, for me it is a motivation to read the complete book to get more insights and practical advice.
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      If this is an accurate summary, it saved me $14 and a couple of days which I might've spent on a pile of BS that the original book is.

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    Antifragile:

    Things That Gain from Disorder

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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    Antifragile by Nassim Taleb is about the things in life that improve—and actually thrive—when subjected to stress, uncertainty, and disorder… Just like your muscles thrive and strengthen when they’re subjected to stressful situations, such as an intense weight-lifting session.

    Just like scandals and rumors have a propensity to spread like wild-fire when people try to cover them up, or how riots and protests get even bigger when they’re repressed — there’s a wide category of other things in life that also benefit from this kind of chaos, disorder, and volatility. This category is what author Nassim Taleb refers to

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