13 - Antifrágil: Las Cosas Que Se Benefician Del Desorden - Nassim Taleb
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There are things in life that only improve if they face obstacles, mistakes, volatility. But even though we know this is the case, there has never been a scientific or mathematical term to explain this phenomenon. That is what Nassim Nicholas Taleb gave us in his popular book called Antifragile, which we bring to you next. We start with another episode of Bibliotequeando. As always, I am your host, Ricardo Lugo, at Bibliotequeando on the networks. Keep sharing the account, giving likes, following, promoting the podcast 5 stars to continue improving our knowledge and culture through books. You can also subscribe to the Bibliotequeando blog, where I write different articles about different topics of the books that we do in the podcast and others that are not part of this list.
The link is found in the description of this podcast or in the link of the accounts of the social networks. This book is written by Nassim Taleb, who is a Lebanese American, an expert in risk problems, risk analysis when working in the stock market. And he realized that there were certain benefits in disorder, in chaos, but that as a society and as a government we are trying to protect ourselves from these events instead of trying to face them. And that is the main concept of the book. This book, by the way, is the fourth of a series of five books called Incerto, the full series. El primer libro de esta serie, que se llama El Cisne Negro, y para los que me siguen en Instagram, arroba bibliotequeando, saben que ya yo subí un resumen de este libro.
Ese libro fue considerado uno de los 10 libros más influyentes desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el mundo moderno, según la revista The New York Times. And I only mention this to give credibility to the author, since you are going to hear a lot of things in this summary that go well against, let's say, the typical wisdom of society. So let's start by explaining this concept of the antifragile. The author explains in the book that there are three types of organisms, systems, three types of things in the world. The fragile things, the robust things and the antifragile things. The fragile things are things that can give you maximum value. It can be a F1 car, a glass ornament in your house. They are extremely high category things, but
They do not resist volatility. Volatility would be some kind of change in the environment. Let's think of the example of the F1 car. As much as it is the fastest car in the world, any kind of drastic change in the environment or the temperature, the crash with another car, some kind of something volatile, something that is not expected happens and breaks it. Just like your glass ornament that is on the table, if you drop it, it breaks. Those are the fragile elements that exist in the world. The robust ones are, let's not say the opposite, which is what he says people think. He thinks that if a glass ornament is fragile, a hammer or a plastic glass is antifragile. He says no, it's robust. These things are made to resist volatility.
They can receive blows, they can receive obstacles, but they don't necessarily get better with it. Let's remember that fragile things get worse. Logically, antifragile things should be done better, and that's what antifragile means. Elements, organisms that at the moment of facing obstacles are strengthened, no matter how unpredictable or volatile they are. So a perfect example that he gives to explain this concept of antifragility is to compare a person with a corporate job and a taxi driver or someone who does Uber.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:50
2
What is antifragility and why is it important?
5:50–14:59
3
What are the three types of systems according to Taleb?
14:59–18:47
4
How do fragile and robust systems differ in response to challenges?
18:47–21:27
5
What examples illustrate the concept of antifragility in everyday life?
21:27–27:29
6
How does the immune system exemplify antifragility?
27:29–34:53
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