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The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don’t know, now with a new section called “On Robustness and Fragility.” A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the “impossible.” For years, Taleb

Who reads The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto)?

Author

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, David Chandler, Nassim N. Taleb

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400063512

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Computer Science, Mathematics, Fiction

Rating

3.89 / 5 (54,696 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14