Happiness & Antifragility
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There is a very important concept that was introduced by Nassim Taleb. And that is anti-fragility. Anti-fragility is essentially resilience 2.0. Resilience 1.0 is when we put pressure on a system. After the pressure is lifted,that system goes back to its original form. Anti-fragility takes this idea a step further.You put pressure on a system. It actually grows bigger, stronger. We see anti-fragile systems all around us and within us. For example, our muscular system, we go to the gym and we lift weights. We're putting pressure on our muscles. What happens as a result, we actually grow stronger. We're an anti-fragile system.On the psychological level, you know what that's called? P.M., post-traumatic growth. So where post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, is about breaking down, post-traumatic growth is about growing stronger as a result of pressure of stress. It's anti-fragility.
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