#mental-model #rationality #wisdom
# Antifragility
>As the resplendent lotus blooms from murky depths, so does grace from adversity.
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>Everybody has to pass through a dark night before he reaches the sunrise
>~ [[Osho]]
What happens when you cut the head off the Hydra? Two more grow back in its place.
>Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
>~ [[Kahlil Gibran]]
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>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 Taleb|Taleb]]
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>Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills his own obligations and corrects his own mistakes. He does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.
>~ [[Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching|Lao Tzu]]
[[Nassim Taleb]] presents this model which says that, something that benefit from shocks is Antifragile, while something that doesn't change with shocks is robust, the one which suffer from it is fragile.
A cup of tea is fragile, it breaks when it falls.
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Pain beget growth. It's the only thing that get written in the remembering self.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI
>Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts.
>~ [[Seneca]]
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>That which does not kill us makes us stronger
> ~ [[Nietzsche]]
A bee stinging to death is antifragile at the gene pool level, also, it has [[Soul in the game]]
Napoleon had many near-death experiences in his youth, it is what made him the legend he is, he was antifragile.
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## Scars
Scars, are, if you are still alive (and in decent health), for the Antifragile, positive #asymmetry , i.e. more upsides than downsides.
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## Cancer is delightful
Sounds ironical, huh? I’m not lying!
I was diagnosed a leukaemia when I was 13, it was very painful mentally and physically, many of my cancer-kids friends died, I survived after 1 year and a half.
Looking back, it’s a few years of downsides, for a lifetime of upsides:
- Regular [[Health|health]] monitoring by an [[Eco-system]] of doctors for free (French health system)
- My understanding of the value of life, reality, [[Morality|ethic]], [[Health|health]], [[Philosophy/Humans/Love|love]], [[Entrepreneurship|building a better future]]
Get cancer guys! Become invincible
## Seeking discomfort ![[Seeking discomfort]]