You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Mithridatization: the result of an exposure to a small dose of a substance that, over time, makes one immune to additional, larger quantities of it.
• Fragile items break under stress, antifragile items get better from it.
• If you need something done, give it to the busiest person.
• Information is antifragile: it benefits more from attempts to harm it than efforts to promote it.
• Everything that has life in it is to some extent antifragile.
• Antifragile systems work, because they build extra capacity when put under stress.
• Random stressors (within reason, ie. no extinction) help species evolve quickly and improve.
• My dream—the solution—is that we would have a National Entrepreneur Day, with the following message: Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of the economic growth of the planet and pulling others out of poverty. You are at the source of our antifragility. Our nation thanks you.
  

• Eye contact with one’s peers changes one’s behaviour.
• Trust people over plans
• One of life’s packages: no stability without volatility.
• We tend to over-intervene in areas with minimal benefits (and large risks), and under-intervene in areas where it’s necessary, like emergencies.
• Stoicism makes you desire the challenge of a calamity. And Stoics look down on luxury: about a fellow who led a lavish life, Seneca wrote: "He is in debt, whether he borrowed from another person or from fortune."
• Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain.

• Let us call trial and error tinkering when it presents small errors and large gains.
• To crystallize, take this description of an option: Option = asymmetry + rationality
• The rationality part lies in keeping what is good and ditching the bad, knowing to take the profits.
• The rationality part lies in keeping what is good and ditching the bad, knowing to take the profits.
• Technology is at its best when it is invisible. I am convinced that technology is of greatest benefit when it displaces the deleterious, unnatural, alienating, and, most of all, inherently fragile preceding technology.
• Second principle of iatrogenics: it is not linear. We should not take risks with near-healthy people; but we should take a lot, a lot more risks with those deemed in danger.
• So there are many hidden jewels in via negativa applied to medicine. For instance, telling people not to smoke seems to be the greatest medical contribution of the last sixty years.
• Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.
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            In a world full of unpredictability, "Antifragile" encourages us to embrace adversity as an opportunity for growth, offering a roadmap to becoming more adaptable and resilient individuals.
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Reasons to read it:

• "Antifragile" presents a groundbreaking viewpoint that challenges the traditional notion of just surviving uncertainty.
• Nassim Taleb explores complex concepts like fragility, robustness, and antifragility, fostering critical thinking and a deeper understanding of systems and their responses to stressors.
• In a world characterized by constant change, the book equips you with insights and tools to not just survive but thrive amidst the uncertainties of modern life.
• If you're seeking a book that challenges conventional wisdom and offers a fresh perspective on personal growth, "Antifragile" provides a unique approach that can broaden your mindset and reshape your approach to challenges.
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