Taleb’s Antifragility

Abdulaziz Al Ghannami
8 min readJul 28, 2020

What is the opposite of fragile? Robust? Wrong!

It’s natural. Most people would often say robust — something that is not fragile, something that does not break. Whilst this common answer may seem correct at first, one can view fragility in a totally different light.

To understand the question better, let us first ask:

What is fragility?

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