{"id":6415,"date":"2013-12-08T14:37:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T22:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6415"},"modified":"2013-12-08T14:37:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T22:37:23","slug":"beyond-sissy-resilience-on-becoming-antifragile-the-art-of-manliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/beyond-sissy-resilience-on-becoming-antifragile-the-art-of-manliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond \u201cSissy\u201d Resilience: On Becoming Antifragile | The Art of Manliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Antifragile things have built-in redundancies. This point stuck out to me the most. Unlike fragile systems\/organizations\/people, antifragile things don\u2019t make efficiency the primary goal. For the antifragile, thriving in randomness is the goal, which often requires being \u201cinefficient\u201d through layering redundancies.<\/p>\n<p>As Taleb notes: \u201cRedundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens \u2014 usually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nature is filled with \u201cinefficient\u201d redundancies. Animals have two lungs, two kidneys, and two testicles, when one of each would work just fine. Since one in a pair of organs can become disabled through disease or trauma, it pays to have a spare.<\/p>\n<p>Besides allowing you to weather storms, Taleb argues that redundancies also allow you to become stronger.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/2013\/12\/03\/beyond-sissy-resilience-on-becoming-antifragile\/\">Beyond \u201cSissy\u201d Resilience: On Becoming Antifragile | The Art of Manliness<\/a>.<br \/>HatTip Dave Lull<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antifragile things have built-in redundancies. This point stuck out to me the most. Unlike fragile systems\/organizations\/people, antifragile things don\u2019t make efficiency the primary goal. For the antifragile, thriving in randomness is the goal, which often requires being \u201cinefficient\u201d through layering redundancies. As Taleb notes: \u201cRedundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[530],"tags":[775],"class_list":["post-6415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragility-2","tag-nnt-applied"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6417,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions\/6417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}