Reflections on Antifragility

After reading a book, you must have a lot of insights in your heart, and you need to go back and write your reflections. Do you want to know how to write a review after reading? The following is my review of antifragile, for reference only, I hope it can help everyone.

"Antifragility" is a very enlightening book written by Nicholas, a famous economist and venture capitalist. Taleb, this book is divided into 25 chapters. Through seemingly loose and unrelated cases, he introduces us to what is "fragile", what is "antifragile", and why we should learn to be antifragile. , Improve anti-fragile capabilities and methods.

A glass is placed beautifully on the table. When it falls to the ground, it will break instantly, so the glass is fragile; if it is a plastic cup that falls to the ground, it will not break but It will bounce twice on the ground, so the plastic cup is strong; imagine a cup. When it falls to the ground, instead of breaking, it turns into two cups. At this time, it is antifragile. The antifragility mentioned in the book simply means: the ability to benefit from the impact of sudden changes.

In the book "Antifragility", Taleb tells us the rules of survival in an uncertain world. He found and defined "antifragile" things: everything will change from fluctuations. Gain benefits or suffer losses. Vulnerability refers to suffering losses due to volatility and uncertainty. Antifragility refers to allowing yourself to avoid these losses or even profit from chaos and uncertainty. He points to the core art of antifragile thinking, which is the instability of emotions, the struggle of the mind.

Nietzsche famously said: "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger." Just like human bones become stronger under pressure and tension, rumors or riots become stronger when someone tries to suppress them Likewise, many things in life benefit from stress, chaos, volatility, and uncertainty. The wind will extinguish the candle, but it will make the fire burn brighter and stronger. The same goes for randomness, uncertainty, and chaos: you exploit them, not avoid them. You want to be a fire, longing to be blown by the wind.

As an ordinary person, what I know about antifragility is that I should have a strong heart and actively seek changes and challenges. Taleb’s last paragraph spoke to my heart. Glass is a dead thing, only living things like volatility. The best way to verify whether you are alive is to check whether you like change. Please remember, if you don’t feel hungry, the mountain delicacies will be tasteless; if you don’t work hard, the results will be meaningless; similarly, if you have not experienced pain, you will not understand joy, and if you have not experienced hardship, faith It would not be strong; deprived of personal risk, living ethically would be meaningless.

I don’t know how long it took to switch from mobile phone to iPad and then to mobile phone. I decided to write down my feelings anyway.

The reason for reading this book is that I don’t want some people to talk to others using theories that I am not familiar with. When I really started reading it, I thought it was a very good reference book, at least in terms of self-understanding. It provides a new path and a new way of thinking.

The author wrote in the summary that in fact, this book revolves around a central idea, that is, antifragility. All sentences in the book are derivation, application or explanation of the central idea. This led to the appearance of many economic or medical concepts in the book, such as the Lindy effect, black swan events, iatrogenic injuries... It also led to the fact that when I first read this book, I was very interested, but halfway through, I felt confused. I was ignorant, and I still stumbled in the later stage but gritted my teeth and persevered. After all, I am also a staunch supporter of antifragility.

What inspired me most in the book was the concept of antifragility. I have always preferred uncertainty and randomness in my life, and can benefit from shocks. When exposed to volatility, randomness When faced with sex, chaos and pressure, risk and uncertainty, we thrive and grow.

There are too many interesting theories in the book. When I was reading the book, I highlighted a few excerpts:

1. Black swan event: refers to an event that causes widespread, serious consequences and is unpredictable. large-scale events that occur from time to time.

When you seek order, you only get superficial order; when you embrace randomness, you can grasp order and control the situation.

2. Your body is more predictive of the future than you are.

Go all out to do your best.

Outside of economic activity, the most antifragile thing is love or hate that is indelible.

Those who bring us the greatest benefit are those who have tried to harm us but ultimately failed.

3. Small commotions and anxieties nourish the soul, and it is not peace but freedom that makes the species prosper.

Focus on actions, don’t rely too much on outside comments, and remain resilient in the face of other people’s attitudes.

To end my reading with a sentence from the book, Prometheus loved disorder and Epimetheus hated disorder.

When I first read this book, I was attracted by the concept of "anti-fragility". I have only heard of fragility and not fragility, but I don't know much about anti-fragility, let alone the true meaning of anti-fragility.

Generally speaking, antifragility refers to the ability to obtain benefits from sudden changes. For a simple example, if a glass is placed on the table and falls to the ground, it will break instantly. Glass is fragile; if A cup, after being dropped to the ground, not only did not break, but turned into two beautiful cups, this is antifragile.

The article mentions a concept. The wind will extinguish the candle, and it will also make the fire burn brighter and stronger. This will lead us to think about a concept. For uncertain things, think about how to use them instead of avoiding them. Randomness and uncertainty in this world always exist, and people always tend to feel safe and certain. This is a typical herd mentality. . The herd mentality has its profound rationality, because as a "crowd", most of the time, we tend to seek safety.

However, the existence of randomness and uncertainty forces us to face this problem. The article gives a corresponding response strategy - the barbell strategy, which is to diversify one's investment, which is often said Never put your eggs in the same basket.

Things have only two dimensions, like long and short, like light and dark, like fragile and not fragile. Why does a third dimension appear out of thin air - antifragility? Wang Jingbo attributes this to the spiritual intervention of living beings in Wen Sijing Yu. We continue to make progress through mistakes, and we continue to grow. The source is the constant impact from the outside world and the constant self-reflection. This is what each of us expects and masters - how to grow in uncertainty.

It can be said that the nature of the world is uncertain. Certainty only exists in human thinking. Human beings’ pursuit of certainty comes from the fear of uncertainty, which requires us to often To reflect, life is short and things are impermanent. It is worth spending time worrying about and predicting the coming of black swans; on the contrary, we must face any setback seriously. Without pain, there will be no memory. Use all opportunities to reflect and always know what you want? What's there? What needs to be given up? Go with the flow.