Antifragile By Nassim Quotes & Sayings

Infinite Spirit, open the way — Florence Scovel Shinn

If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life. — Rhonda Byrne

Curiosity is antifragile, like an addiction, and is magnified by attempts to satisfy it - books have a secret mission and ability to multiply, as everyone who has wall-to-wall bookshelves knows well. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all. — Joseph Campbell

I am not here to live forever, as a sick animal. Recall that the antifragility of a system comes from the mortality of its components - and I am part of that larger population called humans. I am here to die a heroic death for the sake of the collective, to produce offspring (and prepare them for life and provide for them), or eventually, books - my information, that is, my genes, the antifragile in me, should be the ones seeking immortality, not me. Then — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Is the most antifragile place on the planet; it benefits from shocks that take place in the rest of the world. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We can simplify the relationships between fragility, errors, and antifragility as follows. When you are fragile, you depend on things following the exact planned course, with as little deviation as possible - for deviations are more harmful than helpful. This is why the fragile needs to be very predictive in its approach, and, conversely, predictive systems cause fragility. When you want deviations, and you don't care about the possible dispersion of outcomes that the future can bring, since most will be helpful, you are antifragile. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

With few exceptions, those who dress outrageously are robust or even antifragile in reputation; those clean-shaven types who dress in suits and ties are fragile to information about them. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas of Mother Nature converged in my mind. It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I can't just sit all day on the couch and expect the weight to come off. My goals are my new focus instead of food. — Graham Elliot

My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Design that moves others comes from issues that move you. — Jennifer Morla

Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Recall that the fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For the antifragile, shocks bring more benefits (equivalently, less harm) as their intensity increases (up to a point). — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

And we can almost always detect antifragility (and fragility) using a simple test of asymmetry: anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't care to be good, Sheriff. I care to be whole. — Buddy Wakefield

When we have an understanding that the Lord is all powerful, then we know that we need to trust Him each and every day. This understanding allows us to lay our worries in the Lord's hands. In return, we can focus everything that we do into glorifying Jesus. — Tim Salmon

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The process of discovery (or innovation, or technological progress) itself depends on antifragile tinkering, aggressive risk bearing rather than formal education. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb