{"product_id":"antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder","title":"Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNassim Nicholas Taleb\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback 544 pages\u003cbr\u003e9780141038223\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTough times don't last. Tough people do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn The Black Swan, Taleb 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAntifragile is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eI. The Antifragile: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003eII. Modernity and the Denial of Antifragility\u003cbr\u003eIII. A Nonpredictive View of the World\u003cbr\u003eIV. Optionality, Technology, and the Intelligence of Antifragility\u003cbr\u003eV. The Nonliner and the Nonlinear\u003cbr\u003eVI. Via Negativa\u003cbr\u003eVII. The Ethics of Fragility and Antifragility\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40814834483235,"sku":"9780141038223","price":28.4,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/files\/DSC_2974.jpg?v=1746445794","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.mom\/products\/antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}