{"id":72172,"date":"2024-01-13T17:40:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T23:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=72172"},"modified":"2024-01-13T17:40:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T23:40:33","slug":"beyond-sissy-resilience-on-becoming-antifragile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/beyond-sissy-resilience-on-becoming-antifragile\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond \u201cSissy\u201d Resilience: On Becoming Antifragile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-72173 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Anti-Fragile-2020-1024x917.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Anti-Fragile-2020-1024x917.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Anti-Fragile-2020-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Anti-Fragile-2020-768x688.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Anti-Fragile-2020-850x761.jpg 850w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Anti-Fragile-2020.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/advice\/beyond-sissy-resilience-on-becoming-antifragile\/\">Beyond \u201cSissy\u201d Resilience: On Becoming Antifragile<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What\u2019s the opposite of a person or organization that\u2019s fragile?<\/h2>\n<h2>If you ask most people this question, they\u2019ll likely say \u201crobust\u201d or \u201cresilient.\u201d But philosopher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>\u00a0would say that\u2019s not the right answer.<\/h2>\n<h2>He argues that if fragile items\u00a0<i>break<\/i>\u00a0when exposed to stress, something that\u2019s the\u00a0<i>opposite<\/i>\u00a0of fragile wouldn\u2019t simply\u00a0<i>not\u00a0<\/i>break (thus staying the same) when put under pressure; rather, it should actually get\u00a0<i>stronger<\/i>.<\/h2>\n<h2>We don\u2019t really have a word to describe such a person or organization, so Taleb created one:\u00a0<i>antifragile<\/i>.<\/h2>\n<h2>In his book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0083DJWGO\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0083DJWGO&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=stucosuccess-20\"><i>Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder<\/i><\/a>, Taleb convincingly argues that this powerful quality is essential for businesses, governments, and even individuals that wish to thrive in an increasingly complex and volatile world.<\/h2>\n<h2>If you want to succeed and dominate, to separate yourself from the pack and become the last man standing in any area of life, it\u2019s no longer enough to bounce back from adversity and volatility \u2013 to simply be resilient. You have to bounce back\u00a0<i>stronger<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>better<\/i>. You have to become antifragile.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/advice\/beyond-sissy-resilience-on-becoming-antifragile\/\">RTWT.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond \u201cSissy\u201d Resilience: On Becoming Antifragile &nbsp; What\u2019s the opposite of a person or organization that\u2019s fragile? If you ask most people this question, they\u2019ll likely say \u201crobust\u201d or \u201cresilient.\u201d But philosopher\u00a0Nassim Nicholas Taleb\u00a0would say that\u2019s not the right answer. He argues that if fragile items\u00a0break\u00a0when exposed to stress, something that\u2019s the\u00a0opposite\u00a0of fragile wouldn\u2019t simply\u00a0not\u00a0break&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3786,5445,5477,5842,14063,398,399,484],"tags":[17005,17004,17006],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72176,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72172\/revisions\/72176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}