Personal Antifragility: The Art Of Benefiting From And Thriving In Chaos, Adversity, And Surprises (And How To Get Started)

“Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind” Nassim Taleb

“A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything thrown into it.” Marcus Aurelius

If you are fragile, you depend on everything following the exact course and plan. You hate chaos, mistakes, adversity, and surprises because they harm you.

The opposite happens if you are not only robust but antifragile (coined by the great Nassim Taleb).

If you are antifragile, whatever happens to you is the best thing ever, making you stronger, wiser, and more experienced. You love chaos, mistakes, adversity, and surprises because they propel you forward like a boomerang on a rocket engine. As the stoics say: Amor Fati (love what happens).

Therefore, personal antifragility means your ability to benefit from whatever happens (especially if good or bad).

You become more antifragile by removing your fragilities and protecting yourself from ruin

Everything antifragile has fragile parts. A society has perishable humans, and bodies…