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being antifragile in a fragile, fragile world
how to build antifragility
Sneha Rampalli
September 26, 2024
happy thursday lil bees!!!
in this tuesday’s piece, I talk about stopping ourselves from saying the world is a dangerous place, especially to our kids. And one of my takeaways was that optimism does not have to mean naïveté.
Fear has the insidious power to trick us into believing we need to know how to solve and be prepared for every problem that comes our way. Otherwise, we’re naive. We won’t respond quickly enough to a threat. Of course, we are going to feel anxious and set ourselves up with limiting beliefs. The world by its very nature is random and fragile. What we work towards is instead believing that we are capable of facing anything that comes our way.
So how do we work towards believing that we are capable of facing anything that comes our way? One way is building our antifragility, a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book, Antifragile. Taleb is a very mathematical guy, sometimes coined as a a$$hole by his audience. But I think he’s sharing something very valuable here, so I’ll break it down in more laymen’s terms without the math.
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