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Are you looking for Antifragile <\/em>quotes? How can these quotes help you understand antifragility, and encourage you to build antifragility yourself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antifragility is all about the idea of growth through struggle. As we go through life, we continuously grow and learn, and can apply our past struggles to our future success. These Antifragile <\/em>quotes help explain how that works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading for six motivational Antifragile<\/em> quotes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Antifragile<\/em> Quotes and Explanations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

These Antifragile <\/em>quotes cover key ideas in the book like medical convexity, antifragile education, and growth through struggle. Check them out to understand the book and its most exciting ideas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is called the agency problem<\/em>: The one making decisions (the agent) is doing so for his or her own benefit rather than the benefit of the clients. While iatrogenics originated in medicine, it and the agency problem occur in numerous fields. No matter the field, though, it starts with modern, \u201crational\u201d people thinking that their intervention will make things better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statisticians have estimated that reducing medical expenditures (only up to a point and only on elective treatments) would actually increase the average lifespan in wealthy countries like the U.S. by reducing iatrogenics. This is one large-scale application of the \u201cless is more\u201d principle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t an argument that medical care should never be given, just that we should be much more discerning about when and how much we intervene. The iatrogenics of any given drug or treatment are linear\u2014they increase or decrease consistently with how much of the treatment is given. However, the benefits of that treatment can be convex (having accelerating benefits) based on how severe the patient\u2019s condition is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFew understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad — at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Given modern humans\u2019 tendency to intervene in everything, we view hesitating to intervene\u2014that is, procrastinating\u2014as some kind of defect or sickness. The supposed \u201ccures\u201d range from changing your environment, to pursuing a new career, to simply powering through it. The problem is compounded by the fact that inaction is hardly ever rewarded; you get a bonus for the problem you solve, not the one that never happens in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in many cases, procrastination is your body trying to tell you something important. For example, an author who procrastinates on writing a book may be doing so because it\u2019s not what he or she should be writing about, either because of lack of expertise or lack of interest. For a more dramatic example, the Roman general Fabius Maximus irritated the conqueror Hannibal to no end by repeatedly delaying and avoiding military engagements that he was sure to lose. In Maximus\u2019s situation, procrastination was the best strategy and indeed the only viable one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDifficulty is what wakes up the genius\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Doctors have observed extreme cases of antifragility in humans, which they call post-traumatic growth<\/a>. In simple terms, it\u2019s the opposite of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While those who experience the much more well-known PTSD continue to suffer from past events, those who experience post-traumatic growth are somehow improved by it. In fact, there\u2019s a short test that suggests various forms that improvement could take: the Post Traumatic Growth Inventory.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, while many people may not have heard of post-traumatic growth, almost everyone has heard some variation of the expression \u201cwhat doesn\u2019t kill me makes me stronger.\u201d Perhaps this is just another example of domain dependence<\/a> at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another phrase, \u201cnecessity is the mother of invention,\u201d points to another, more immediate, sort of antifragility seen in humans. Basically, what happens is that people overreact to setbacks\u2014they\u2019re spurred to use more energy and effort than is needed to compensate for the problems. That excess energy goes on to become innovation and progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf there is something in nature you don’t understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: ‘innocent until proven guilty’ as opposed to ‘guilty until proven innocent’, let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Scientific theories are a key underpinning of rationalization and a dangerous one. Scientists frequently promote theories without stopping to consider the damage that might happen if those theories are wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science\u2014that is, rigorous testing and observation\u2014can be done without resorting to theories at all. There\u2019s even a name for it: phenomenology<\/em>, the study of phenomena that currently have no theories explaining them. While theories are fragile and often vanish as quickly as they appear, phenomena are durable; they happen the same way every time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social sciences are especially vulnerable to flawed theories, and even the theories themselves seem to vary wildly from one school of thought to another. In the cold war years, the University of Chicago was pushing laissez faire economics while the University of Moscow taught the complete opposite. Even calling such ideas \u201ctheories\u201d stretches the definition a bit because theories are supposed to be closely examined and supported with concrete evidence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Forecasting or predicting the future<\/a> is notoriously hard to do. Consider the infamous inaccuracy of weather forecasts, and then realize that those are based on much more concrete information than, for example, a large company\u2019s financial projections for the coming year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much of our modern obsession with control is based on forecasting\u2014predicting upcoming events so that we can be ready for them or, better still, prevent them. However, actions taken based on these inaccurate forecasts are often more harmful than helpful. If you\u2019ve ever trusted a forecast that says the day will be clear and sunny, then gotten rained on because you didn\u2019t bring an umbrella, you understand how that can happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAntifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We live in an unpredictable world. The models and theories we use to try to predict the future<\/a> invariably fall apart as unforeseen events prove them wrong and, in turn, destroy the plans we made based on those models. Clearly, systems based on such flawed models are bound to be fragile\u2014easily broken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solution to this problem is antifragility. Instead of a never-ending search for more accurate models and better predictions, all we need to do is make sure that we\u2019re in a position to benefit from uncertainty and volatility instead of being harmed by it.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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