The Quest For AntiFragility Continues…

Just read chapter 7 of Antifragile & 3 things stuck out to me:

• “Procrastination” is good
• Signal to noise ratio
• Forecasting the future is for fools

Procrastinating Noncritical Decisions

If you are presented with a stressful situation that doesn’t drastically alter your life, the best thing to do is wait.

Rushing into a decision is just as bad as selecting the wrong one, & sometimes it’s best to just wait & see what will happen.

This is much more passive than the GTD (“Get Things Done”) mentality, & incorporating it within my life will be…interesting. :-/

Signal To Noise Ratio

Basically having more data does not benefit you as it forces you to filter through more crapola (aka noise) in order to access the information that you desire.

In essence less is more which is something I believe.

Interestingly he uses food as an analogy where cutting back (aka fasting) can be beneficial towards your health (something I’ve noticed by eating between 1.5 & 2 meals a day).

Note: My dieting analysis is something that works FOR ME & should not be duplicated by anyone else but fools!

Forecasting The Future

Despite my constant focus on the upcoming reality of the world, the author claims that it’s impossible to know the future due to the variables that surround it.

He uses the fall of Egypt’s military dictatorship as an example.

Despite having millions upon millions of dollars at their disposal that the US was unable to predict that a stable country like Egypt would collapse due to peaceful protests.

In Essence

This is turning out to be a better book than I expected & afterwards I’m going to (re)read Mussashi as that man displays AntiFragile almost perfectly. :-)