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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Genís Sánchez Barberán, Albino Santos Mosquera is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 s

Who reads Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)?

Author

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Genís Sánchez Barberán, Albino Santos Mosquera

Publisher

Random House LLC US

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400067824

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Psychology, Fiction, Self Help

Rating

4.05 / 5 (16,843 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13