Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
What if chaos didn’t break you—but forged you? In Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shatters our obsession with stability, arguing that true resilience isn’t about surviving chaos—it’s about thriving in it. From crumbling economies to the human spirit, he reveals how volatility and uncertainty are the hidden engines of growth. But as we engineer our lives to avoid shocks, a deadly irony surfaces: Our desperate grip on control might be the very thing making us brittle. Will you cling to fragile safety… or let chaos sculpt you into something unbreakable?
- 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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