What is Anti-Fragility?
Transcending risk-avoidance behavior by taking and owning risks as they come
Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure. Yet in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. Let us call it antifragile. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
— Nassim Taleb
Originating from the critical mind of Nassim Taleb, professor and former hedge fund manager, anti-fragility is a concept which encompasses the idea that things need chaos and disorder in order to thrive and flourish.
It adheres to the timeworn truism that whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, pushing the notion that we shouldn’t construct our lives or our plans against randomness and misfortune, rather, we should adopt anti-fragility as a means of maneuvering through disorder.
