“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
“Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life— with the ironic result of making the world a lot more unpredictable, as if the goddesses of chance wanted to have the last word.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
