First, as Nassim Nicholas Talib writes in his book…

First, as Nassim Nicholas Talib writes in his book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, they become family systems that are ever more resilient, ever more agile, all toward meeting and overcoming the internal and external sequestration events that will attack their systems.

— from Takeoff Into Chaos

In the book

Some systems weaken under stress; others actually grow stronger from it. The goal is not merely to survive the shaking but to be built so the shaking improves you — the way a young venture learns fastest by failing fast and cheap, the way a family that meets hardship together becomes ever more resilient and agile with each blow it absorbs. Children, strangely, are the natural masters of this; it is we grown pilots who have forgotten how, we who are afraid. — Takeoff Into Chaos

Some systems, Nassim Taleb observed, grow weaker under pressure — but others grow stronger, a quality he called antifragility, and that is the thing to aim for: not just to withstand the blow but to be improved by it. The strongest families and systems are built exactly this way — to become more resilient and more agile with each shock they meet and overcome, rather than more brittle. Researchers even have a name for the trait that predicts who rises and who is crushed — your adversity quotient — and it forecasts, better than talent or intelligence, who will overcome and who will fold — and without enough of it, you are liable to choose a dangerous fork in the road when the hard moment comes. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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