{"product_id":"9780141038223-antifragile","title":"Antifragile","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThings that Gain from Disorder\u003cbr\u003eTough times don't last. Tough people do. In this book, the author shows that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Really made me think about how I think' - Mohsin Hamid, author of \u003ci\u003eExit West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTough times don't last. Tough people do. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Black Swan, \u003c\/i\u003eTaleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncer­tainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resil­ient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile are things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntifragile \u003c\/i\u003eis a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb's message is revolutionary: the antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The hottest thinker in the world' Bryan Appleyard, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31380025704545,"sku":"9780141038223","price":13.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32397808.jpg?v=1737227974","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141038223-antifragile","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}