Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
What if the key to enduring chaos is not merely to withstand it—but to thrive because of it? In Antifragile, ideas crackle like lightning as it dismantles the illusion of stability and celebrates systems, individuals, and ideas that grow stronger under pressure, volatility, and disorder. Through paradox and provocation, it asks: Why worship resilience when you can embrace something better—something that feeds on uncertainty and emerges sharper, fiercer, and wiser? With a voice that is both incendiary and exacting, this book maps a radical philosophy for living wisely in a world that will never be safe, still, or predictable. It is not a manual for survival—but a manifesto for transcendence.
- Originally Published: 2012
- Publisher : Penguin Books, 2013
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 544
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0141038223
- Access: Members
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 uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient 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
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