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

* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes.


*By reading this summary, you will discover the concept of anti-fragility which allows you to face shocks, fluctuations and stress.


*You will also discover : that antifragility systems are part of your daily life; that to be antifragile, a system must generate more gains than losses; that shocks and fragility are sometimes good things; that if you focus too much on the causes of an event, you miss the real solutions; that you have to free yourself from theories and academic knowledge; that you need to respect others and the lessons of the past to become anti-fragile.


*Fragility is a concept that everyone thinks they have mastered. But how to define its opposite? Is it robustness? Well no, not quite! Might as well cut to the chase... the word for the opposite of "fragile" doesn't exist in any language. "Antifragile" fills this gap. An innovative concept, anti-fragile allows people and systems to improve under the effect of shock or stress. By putting into practice the methods of this summary, you will learn how to analyze a potentially destabilizing event and how to deal with it. So, are you ready to become anti-fragile?


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