Antifragile

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas

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In his new book, ‘Antifragile’, Taleb tells us how to live in a world that is unpredictable and chaotic, and how to thrive during moments of disaster.

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Publish Date: 06/06/2013
ISBN: 9780141038223 Category: Tags: ,

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 uncer-tainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resil-ient 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

Additional information

Weight 372 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 23 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xix, 519

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

155.24 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K