# Antifragility

By [leo](https://paragraph.com/@ui-chain) · 2024-05-01

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**Before reading "Antifragility"**, I had just given up on "Living Like a Philosopher" because the philosophical speculations were a bit esoteric.

But in Antifragility, Taleb talks about "taming emotions", which makes me read the essence of Stoicism: turning fear into caution, pain into information, mistakes into revelations, and desires into For the cause. When you read a certain number of books of a certain type, you will find that some truth principles are interlinked. The truth is actually very simple, but it is often ignored by us.

Smooth sailing has great hidden risks, which is the fundamental reason why people are unable to respond positively when a "black swan" comes. We will adjust our behavior from time to time due to the small mistakes we make constantly, and we will continue to accumulate experience. Only when big events come, will we be able to cope with them.

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*Originally published on [leo](https://paragraph.com/@ui-chain/antifragility)*