
Tough times don't last Tough people do In The Black Swan Taleb showed us that highly improbable & unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world Here Taleb stands uncer-tainty on its head making it desirable even necessary The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust The resil-ient resists shocks & stays the same; the antifragile gets better & better Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress & tension many things in life benefit from stress disorder volatility & turmoil What Taleb has identified & calls antifragile are things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive & flourish Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world Erudite witty & iconoclastic Taleb's message is revolutionary the antifragile & only the antifragile will make it' The hottest thinker in the world' Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times