There are two types of disciplined people: those who take consistent action through sheer willpower and those who do it without the use of willpower.
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.
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