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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb published on November 27, 2012, by Random House in the United States and Penguin in the United Kingdom. This book builds upon ideas from his previous works including Fooled by Randomness , The Black Swan , and The Bed of Procrustes and is the fourth book in the five-volume philosophical treatise on uncertainty titled Incerto. Some of the ideas are expanded in Taleb’s fifth book Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life .


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“Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 15

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“I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 4
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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“He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012)

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“Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 101

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“We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), pp. 10–11

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“Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 109

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“Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 64

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“It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 44

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“Randomness works well in search—sometimes better than humans.”

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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 103

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