Antifragile Nassim Taleb Quotes

#1. Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

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#2. For the antifragile, shocks bring more benefits (equivalently, less harm) as their intensity increases (up to a point).

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#3. Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

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#4. And we can almost always detect antifragility (and fragility) using a simple test of asymmetry: anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile.

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#5. It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.

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#6. Curiosity is antifragile, like an addiction, and is magnified by attempts to satisfy it - books have a secret mission and ability to multiply, as everyone who has wall-to-wall bookshelves knows well.

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#7. My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.

Joe Nichols

#8. It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas of Mother Nature converged in my mind. It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.

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#9. The beginning of all temptations to evil is instability of temper and want of trust in God;

Thomas A Kempis

#10. Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

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#11. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

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#12. With few exceptions, those who dress outrageously are robust or even antifragile in reputation; those clean-shaven types who dress in suits and ties are fragile to information about them.

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#13. Today, we're no longer just 'Muslim'. We're 'progressives', 'Islamists', 'traditionalists', 'salafis', 'indigenous', and 'immigrants'. And each group has become so alienated from the other, that we've almost forgotten that we share a common creed.

Yasmin Mogahed

#14. Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside

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#15. The process of discovery (or innovation, or technological progress) itself depends on antifragile tinkering, aggressive risk bearing rather than formal education.

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#16. Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

Judith Guest

#17. Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

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#18. To be an American is not ... a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea
and history is the image of that idea.

Robert Penn Warren

#19. Recall that the fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

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#20. Some "take and give".
Some "receive and share".

Toba Beta

#21. Is the most antifragile place on the planet; it benefits from shocks that take place in the rest of the world.

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