Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world.
Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish.
In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.
Furthermore, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we call “efficient” not efficient at all? Why do government responses and social policies protect the strong and hurt the weak? Why should you write your resignation letter before even starting on the job? How did the sinking of the Titanic save lives? The book spans innovation by trial and error, life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are loud and clear.
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.
Praise for Antifragile
“Ambitious and thought-provoking . . . highly entertaining.” — The Economist
“A bold book explaining how and why we should embrace uncertainty, randomness, and error . . . It may just change our lives.” — Newsweek
“Revelatory . . . [Taleb] pulls the reader along with the logic of a Socrates.” — Chicago Tribune
“Startling . . . richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides . . . I will have to read it again. And again.” —Matt Ridley, The Wall Street Journal
“Trenchant and persuasive . . . Taleb’s insatiable polymathic curiosity knows no bounds. . . . You finish the book feeling braver and uplifted.” — New Statesman
“Antifragility isn’t just sound economic and political doctrine. It’s also the key to a good life.” — Fortune
“At once thought-provoking and brilliant.” —Los Angeles Times
From the Hardcover edition.
納西姆•尼古拉斯•塔勒布(Nassim Nicholas Taleb),暢銷書《黑天鵝》、《隨機漫步的傻瓜》作者,我們這個時代最偉大的思想者之一。
有了障碍,烈火才会烧的更旺。禁书、九头龙、成长、折磨的爱都是如此,当砍掉九头龙的一个头,会长出两个头。 大企业与政府并不明白信息的反作用力,当你打压某个信息的时候,其实正是在助长信息的传播。在网上攻击对手,可能帮助了他,伤害了自己。千万不要把敌人逼在是路上...
評分(注:该文已于3月3日在《经济观察报》上发表) 介绍这本书之前,很有必要介绍一下本书作者:纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布。这位来自于黎巴嫩艾姆云的“漫游者”可谓是一个“天才”:在商业领域,他是安皮里卡资本公司的创办人,被业界誉为深有影响的商业思想家,在学术领域,他是...
評分(注:该文已于3月3日在《经济观察报》上发表) 介绍这本书之前,很有必要介绍一下本书作者:纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布。这位来自于黎巴嫩艾姆云的“漫游者”可谓是一个“天才”:在商业领域,他是安皮里卡资本公司的创办人,被业界誉为深有影响的商业思想家,在学术领域,他是...
評分有了障碍,烈火才会烧的更旺。禁书、九头龙、成长、折磨的爱都是如此,当砍掉九头龙的一个头,会长出两个头。 大企业与政府并不明白信息的反作用力,当你打压某个信息的时候,其实正是在助长信息的传播。在网上攻击对手,可能帮助了他,伤害了自己。千万不要把敌人逼在是路上...
評分《反脆弱》是一本很容易引起误读的书。《黑天鹅》、《随机致富的傻瓜》更正了大部分人的决定论的或者机械论的旧世界观,但实际上,二战前后,几乎没有一个西方学科不是采取概率论和统计学的世界观了,换言之,西方在二战后,有一个世界观和方法论的革命,只是由于特殊的原因,...
有股說不齣味道的民科味兒。
评分taleb is an arrogant sob. his book, on the other hand, is an intellectual enjoyment. it draws from mathematical and philosophical arguments and presented fashionable ideas. noted when I say fashionable, i meant that his ideas are innovative and interesting. however, anyone who blindly fell for advice are most definitely not a good trader
评分Not recommend, chaoes, not systematic, being innovative to be innovative.
评分taleb is an arrogant sob. his book, on the other hand, is an intellectual enjoyment. it draws from mathematical and philosophical arguments and presented fashionable ideas. noted when I say fashionable, i meant that his ideas are innovative and interesting. however, anyone who blindly fell for advice are most definitely not a good trader
评分http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21566619-how-surprises-make-you-stronger-stress-best 太囉嗦瞭,廢話連篇
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