Antifragile
Things That Gain from Disorder
Some things break under shocks, some withstand them — and some grow from them. Build a life that feeds on chaos: one foot in order, one in the unknown, and every storm leaves you bigger than it found you.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a former options trader turned essayist and scholar of risk and randomness (Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan). Published in 2012, this is the third book in his Incerto series — coining the word “antifragile” for a whole category of things that don’t just survive volatility and stress but actually need it to get stronger.
A few lines worth keeping:
Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.
The absence of challenge degrades the best of the best.
Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.
If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
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