Nassim Taleb is an interesting thinker, specialized in VUCA environments, change, and how to become anti-fragile. We’ve already talked about him (see below).
Here’s a compilation of some of his main ideas in 10 minutes. You can expect to learn:
- Why is it better to go through life as an adventurer rather than as a tourist?
- What can we learn from finantial traders regarding risk management and how to benefit from volatility?
- Why does formal education may be a bad idea, and you should provide yourself an anti-education?
- What can we learn from the Stoics and why should we challenge ourselves now and then?
- How can we turn fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desires into undertaking?
CHAPTERS
0:00 – Rule 1 – Do Hard Things (Adversities Make You Grow)
1:35 – Rule 2 – Go Through Life as a “Flâneur”
4:18 – Rule 3 – Develop an Anti-Education
7:01 – Rule 4 – Adopt an Antifragile Life-Philosophy
10:58 – Related Quotes
Other videos about Nassim Taleb: ¿Es el coronavirus un «cisne negro»?
And here is a longer conference about how to live in a world we don’t understand:
