Black Swan

Samenvatting

The Black Swan is about the power of rare events--big shocks that are never anticipated--and become explainable ONLY AFTER THE FACT. For the brilliant probability theorist and rogue philosopher Nassim Taleb, Black Swans explain just about everything significant about our world, and yet we're hardwired to be blind to them. Which is why we understand a lot less about the world than we think we do.

To explain Black Swan Blindness, Nassim turns to the ways our brains work. Our minds are prediction and explanation machines, which worked fine on the African savannah, but not in the modern world, due to its extreme complexity. Our brains have the wrong users manual. Thus the Black Swan never factors into our planning, our economics, our politics, our business models, our lives. 

In the face of a Black Swan world, what do we do? Question everything, this book powerfully argues, specially what so-called experts say. Maximize the serendipity around you. Put yourself in a position to get lucky every day. Imagine the impossible, and reward people who do, because the impossible is happening, every day. 

The Black Swan is a "big think" book that shows why the unexpected matters more than what we spend all our time thinking about, and why what we don't know is more important than what we do know. It's delightfully written and is backed up with real science: statistics, cognitive studies, evolutionary biology. 

Innovators of all types around the world are intrigued by Nassim's ideas; he's constantly lecturing at places like the Pentagon, the Rand Corporation, and businesses worldwide. He has a serious following, and it's growing. Nassim has already published two Op-Eds in the Times that succinctly explains the Black Swan idea. The Black Swan is a meme, and it is already beginning to spread. The Black Swan is a wholly original contribution to how we think about the world and our own lives.

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