{"product_id":"antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder","title":"Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder","description":"\u003cp\u003eNassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Swan\u003c\/i\u003eand 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Black Swan,\u003c\/i\u003e Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In \u003ci\u003eAntifragile,\u003c\/i\u003eTaleb 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 \u003ci\u003eTitanic\u003c\/i\u003esave 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.\u003ci\u003eAntifragile\u003c\/i\u003eis a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/nassim-nicholas-taleb-books\"\u003eNassim Nicholas Taleb\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780141038223\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taleb, Nassim Nicholas","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £4.87","offer_id":48001176174769,"sku":"SB-0141038225-C3","price":4.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0141038225.jpg?v=1790988853","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}