Antifragile
Things that Gain from Disorder
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3.7 • 38 Ratings
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
'Really made me think about how I think' - Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West
Tough times don't last. Tough people do.
In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The 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 world. Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb's message is revolutionary: the antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it.
'The hottest thinker in the world' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
Customer Reviews
Incredible
I could not stop reading it. It resonated with me in many ways. I highly recommend it.
A profound look at how risk should affect decisions
Simple yet highly complex, a meaty book with plenty for the reader to think about. Applies to many domains, not just business or finance, but medicine, politics and daily life. A must read for the curious mind, and anyone who comes accross risk on a daily basis (i.e. everyone).
Rambling
This is my first attempt at this author. The premise is intriguing and the author provides numerous examples but I have given up less than a quarter of the way through it. The writing style is rambling, poorly structured, and it’s clear that the author has an enormous ego. With better editing this would have been a fascinating and thought provoking book. Very disappointing