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Antifragile: How to live in a world we don't understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

I realized that my bad relationships are mostly the result of my lack of skin in the game. That indifference is not an advantage but that it is paralyzing.

That I have to feel to be able to risk and do something.

In addition to applying the concept of antifragility to many external things.

It has motivated me to start a business and to connect more with my loved ones, changed my perspective on research, what's important and the power of the passing of time. It definitely impacted my life.



Nassim is really a great thinker. His latest book "Skin in the game" probably is underestimated by the public. It's relevant to quite a lot of current events happening that have a huge impact on modern society.


Nassim Taleb, not Massimo


Yeah, autocorrect.


It is a brilliant series - total game changer for me. Lots of ideas I (and others) could not express in concrete terms, he did.


I personally found Fooled by Randomness influential - and his later works very much build on the ideas he began with that book.


On Amazon, the official version seems to be called, "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)"


This book was incredible, I did not know this powerful concept of "systems that get stronger through use" existed before reading this book.


> changed my perspective on research

could you elaborate on that? pro research or against?


Probably that science via statistics is problematic and not as reliable as believed.




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