Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world.
 
Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. 
 
In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.
 
Furthermore, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we call “efficient” not efficient at all? Why do government responses and social policies protect the strong and hurt the weak? Why should you write your resignation letter before even starting on the job? How did the sinking of the Titanic save lives? The book spans innovation by trial and error, life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are loud and clear.
 
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.

Praise for Antifragile
 

“Taleb takes on everything from the mistakes of modern architecture to the dangers of meddlesome doctors and how overrated formal education is. . . . An ambitious and thought-provoking read . . . highly entertaining.”—The Economist

黑天鹅》的畅销书作者、我们这个时代最重要的思想家之一纳西姆-尼古拉斯-塔勒布，揭示了如何在一个不确定的世界中茁壮成长。

就像人的骨骼在承受压力和紧张时变得更强壮，而谣言或暴乱在有人试图压制它们时变得更激烈一样，生活中的许多事物都从压力、无序、波动和动荡中受益。塔勒布所确定并称之为 "反脆弱 "的是那一类不仅从混乱中获益，而且需要它来生存和发展的事物。

在《黑天鹅》中，塔勒布向我们展示了高度不可能和不可预测的事件是我们世界的几乎一切的基础。在《反脆弱》中，塔勒布将不确定性立起来，使其成为理想的，甚至是必要的，并建议以反脆弱的方式建造事物。反脆弱是超越弹性或稳健的。弹性的能抵御冲击并保持不变；反脆弱的则会越来越好。

此外，反脆弱者对预测错误有免疫力，并受到不利事件的保护。为什么城邦比民族国家好，为什么债务对你不利，为什么我们所说的 "高效 "根本就不高效？为什么政府的反应和社会政策会保护强者而伤害弱者？为什么你应该在开始工作之前就写好辞职信？泰坦尼克号的沉没是如何拯救生命的？这本书跨越了试错创新、生活决策、政治、城市规划、战争、个人财务、经济体系和医学。而且，除了布鲁克林胖子托尼的街头智慧之外，来自罗马、希腊、闪米特和中世纪的古代智慧的声音和秘诀也贯穿始终。

反脆弱》是一个生活在黑天鹅世界中的蓝图。

塔勒布的信息是革命性的，他博学、诙谐、具有标志性。反脆弱，而且只有反脆弱的人才能成功。

对《反脆弱》的赞誉

"塔勒布探讨了从现代建筑的错误到多管闲事的医生的危险以及正规教育被高估的一切。. . 这是一本雄心勃勃、发人深省的读物......极具娱乐性。"--《经济学家》杂志

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