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Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Description for Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Paperback. Tough times don't last. Tough people do. In this book, the author shows that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPX; JM; KCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 121 x 24. Weight in Grams: 374.
'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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141038223
SKU
9780141038223
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99-1
About Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering ... Read more
Reviews for Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Really made me think about how I think
Mohsin Hamid
Guardian
The hottest thinker in the world
Bryan Appleyard
The Sunday Times
A superhero of the mind
Boyd Tonkin Wall Street's principal dissident
Malcolm Gladwell A guru for every would-be Damien Hirst, George Soros and aspirant despot
John Cornwell
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Mohsin Hamid
Guardian
The hottest thinker in the world
Bryan Appleyard
The Sunday Times
A superhero of the mind
Boyd Tonkin Wall Street's principal dissident
Malcolm Gladwell A guru for every would-be Damien Hirst, George Soros and aspirant despot
John Cornwell
Sunday ... Read more