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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: A complex system’s antifragility relies, indeed, on the fragility of its component parts.
Chapter 3: Stressors and shocks fortify antifragile systems by making them build up extra capacity reserves.
Chapter 4: Calm environments produce fragile systems; antifragility indeed arises from volatility.
Chapter 5: To harness antifragility, you needn’t fully understand the opportunities you notice; only know when to seize them wisely, indeed.
Chapter 6: To become antifragile, manage risks properly so you can profit from unpredictable events.
Chapter 7: The bigger an organisation or system is, the harder it gets hit by unexpected crises, indeed.
Chapter 8: Many modern professions are antifragile, yet at everyone else’s expense.
Chapter 9: Our urge to remove volatility from life will ultimately render our society more fragile.
Chapter 10: Modern education faces a “turkey problem”: we misread the past to forecast the future ahead.
Chapter 11: We undervalue antifragility’s role in fueling progress and advances throughout modern society today.
Chapter 12: Concluding Summary
Description
Some things seem to improve if they are placed in environments of volatility and unpredictability. Antifragile (2014) analyzes why this is the case. It suggests that this quality has been vital for the progress of human civilization since ancient times.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb takes a critical look at modern society and its aim to smooth out life by interfering in systems like the economy. Far from making society a better place, this interfering nature is destroying the volatile environment essential for antifragility to take place.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who wants to know why some systems improve over time
- Anyone who wants to know how to take advantage of uncertainty
- Anyone interested in why crises happen