Antifragility quotes

Some of my favorite quotes from Nassim Taleb’s book “Antifragile:”

• The largest fragilizer of society, and greatest generator of crises, absence of “skin in the game.”
• The chief ethical rule is the following: thou shalt not have antifragility at the expense of the fragility of others.
• The antifragile gains from prediction errors, in the long run.
• Intellectuals tend to focus on negative responses from randomness (fragility) rather than positive ones (antifragility).
• Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.
• Layers of redundancy are the central risk management property of natural systems.
• Stressors are information

And some of my favorite quotes from myself about antifragility:

• Change is inevitable, but we can influence whether it happens within us or on us, whether we are part of it or excluded by it.
• Something is antifragile if and only if it satisfies three criteria: (1) it’s made of components that (2) can break independently and (3) can be healed or regrown.
• The question isn’t how we can become antifragile (we all already are, to some extent) but how we can become more antifragile.