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{{g}}A coinage of fabulously argumentative writer {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} in {{br|Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder}}, to be antifragile is to be neither fragile — breakable, delicate, post-millennial, [[snowflake]]y and susceptible to damage by agitation, nor [[robust]] (stout, sturdy and impervious to agitation) but ''strengthened'' by agitation. Immune systems, callouses, Nietzscheans — these are [[antifragile]].
{{g}}A coinage of fabulously argumentative writer {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} in {{br|Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder}}, to be antifragile is to be neither fragile — breakable, delicate, post-millennial, [[snowflake]]y and susceptible to damage by agitation, nor [[robust]] (stout, sturdy and impervious to agitation) but ''strengthened'' by agitation. Immune systems, callouses, Nietzscheans — these are [[antifragile]]. We wonder whether the word Taleb claims not to exist is “resilience” — perhaps that just means “ability to recover from shocks” rather than “ability to benefit from them”, but it is close.


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A coinage of fabulously argumentative writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, to be antifragile is to be neither fragile — breakable, delicate, post-millennial, snowflakey and susceptible to damage by agitation, nor robust (stout, sturdy and impervious to agitation) but strengthened by agitation. Immune systems, callouses, Nietzscheans — these are antifragile. We wonder whether the word Taleb claims not to exist is “resilience” — perhaps that just means “ability to recover from shocks” rather than “ability to benefit from them”, but it is close.

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