Beyond "Sissy" Resilience: On Becoming Antifragile
ARTOFMANLINESS.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2020: "We must remain strong and prepare to build, and to build well, when this crisis passes."] ARTICLE: If you ask most people "What's the opposite of a fragile person or organization?", they'll likely say "robust" or "resilient." But Nassim Nicholas Taleb would say that's wrong. He argues that if fragile items break when exposed to stress, something that's the opposite of fragile wouldn't simply not break (and stay the same); rather, it should actually get stronger, and he coined "antifragile" for this quality. It's no longer enough to bounce back from adversity and volatility - to be resilient. You have to bounce back stronger and better. You have to become antifragile. In his book, "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder,", Taleb makes the case that people, systems, organizations, things, and ideas can be described in one of three ways: fragile, resilient, or antifragile. Now, what is fragile? The large, optimized, overreliant on technology, overreliant on the so-called ...
