Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors.
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in reading orderWind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
Somehow, randomness, mess, and uncertainty are sisters.
To learn that you have wasted years of your life, that you were misguided, that you were wrong - these are not pleasant revelations. But they are useful ones.
Someone with an asymmetric mind makes himself rich by giving society what it doesn't know how to get, instead of what it thinks it wants.
When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.
Freedom is never free.
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.
Keep what you read, not just what you finished.
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