The book Anti-Fragility tells us that there are many uncertain things in daily life, which is what Buddhists call "impermanence". Faced with these uncertainties, we should learn to make use of them instead of avoiding them. If you want to be a fire, you long for the wind to blow and make the fire bigger. In other words, it is to domesticate, dominate and even conquer those invisible, transparent and inexplicable things in life.

Some things can benefit from the shock. When faced with volatility, randomness, chaos and pressure, risk and uncertainty, they can thrive. However, although this phenomenon is widespread, it is difficult to define, so it is defined as "anti-vulnerability".

Anti-vulnerability is very different from the familiar "toughness" in daily life. The latter generally refers to recovery after injury, while anti-vulnerability refers to benefiting from impact.

Introduction to the author of Anti-Fragility:

Nassim nicholas taleb, male, founder of Empolica Capital Company, is a researcher at Courand Institute of Mathematics, new york University.

Nassim nicholas taleb spends most of his time wandering and meditating in cafes around the world. He used to be a businessman in his early years, and now he is an outstanding professor at new york University. He has traded various derivatives in new york and London, and worked as an independent trader in Chicago.

In February, 20001year, he officially became a member of the hall of fame of derivative financial commodity trading strategy. His works include Random Walk for Fools and Black Swan. The latter has been on the best-seller list in The New York Times for more than a year and published in 365,438+0 languages. It is a classic book on knowledge, society and culture. Taleb's latest book is The Wisdom of Random Survival.