Antifragile. Things That Gain From Disorder
Antifragile. Things That Gain From Disorder
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Author
Author
Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Нассим Николас Талеб
Dimension
Dimension
130x200mm (5,1'x7,9')
ISBN
ISBN
9780141038223
Format
Format
Paperback
Language
Language
English
Page Count
Page Count
546
Publisher
Publisher
Penguin
Year of book publication
Year of book publication
2013
Antifragile. Things That Gain From Disorder
'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
SPECIFICATIONS:
Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Нассим Николас Талеб
Publisher:Penguin
Language:English
Publication Date:2013
Number of pages:546 pst
Format:Paperback
Width:130 mm / 5,1'
Height:200 mm / 7,9'
Weight:480 g
ISBN:9780141038223