"The key property of antifragility is the love of mistakes. Antifragility helps you to start acting even when you have absolutely no idea what you should do and where it will lead you. Thanks to what you quickly adapt to new conditions. In today's world, it's crucial to learn this skill because everything is constantly changing.”

Nassim Taleb

*"The triad: fragile, invulnerable, antifragile is the Phoenix bird, the Sword of Damocles, the Hydra.                                 Each of us has three choices to react in an unexpected situation: be fragile, vulnerable, or antifragile.

-If you are fragile, then any trouble can tear a horsehair and fall on you like a sword of Damocles;

-if you are invulnerable, then you come out of any difficult situation like a Phoenix bird reborn from the ashes;-          if you are antifragile, then in case of an unfortunate development of events you, like a hydra, have three new opportunities instead of one cut down!"

* "Evolution is the king of adaptability. It is adaptability and the ability to change rather than break under the pressure of circumstances and external factors that is the key            to survival."

* "The game establishes order and is impossible without observance of certain rules; in the game is realized not only the human desire for competition, but also the need for rest, discharge; closely related to the game is the concept of winning, that is, a kind of elevation as a result of the game"

*Pearls are the highest element in the symbolic hierarchy of semi-precious stones as an image of perfection and beauty, just as a person's inner balance based on the certainty of their anti-fragility is the highest level of conscious being.

"An unmeaning life has no meaning"
Nassim Taleb

* However simple the tricks may seem at first glance, they require from the illusionist enormous, constant labor, scientific knowledge, incessant search for new ways and great artistic skill.

* "The fulfillment of a supertask is the key to invulnerability. If a person constantly copes with supertasks, he does not need to think about what will happen next.

Every new situation that arises that may arise will be just another supertask. A supertask is a very spiritual thing. It's a way of life and a whole science that leads you to invulnerability."

Nassim Taleb

* Black Swan - a theory that considers hard-to-predict and rare events that have significant consequences; named after Nassim Taleb's book of the same name. To understand antifragility is to stop feeling fear of Black Swans and accept them as something necessary to history.

"Antifragility is not the same as elasticity, flexibility or invulnerability. The flexible or elastic resists a shake and remains the same; the antifragile, having passed through trials, becomes better  than before."

Nassim Taleb

*Diffraction is a certain set of phenomena observed in the propagation of light in a medium with sharp inhomogeneities, more simply - the enveloping of obstacles by light waves.

* The easy way does not produce growth. Post-traumatic growth, according to Taleb, is 10 times more common than post-traumatic stress. Which means these environments where we expose ourselves to stress are beneficial rather than dangerous. But, you still need to be able to find the middle ground.

* "All natural entities - biosystems, like a forest, or even our bodies, necessarily need stress. Without receiving that stress, the system will have no volatility and will tend to collapse." Naseem Taleb

* There are things and phenomena that benefit from a shake-up; they flourish and develop when faced with changeability, randomness, disorder, stressors, love experiences, risk and uncertainty

"The life of a particular person is an amazing piece of luck, a rare event, an accident of gigantic magnitude, i.e., a Black Swan."

* A black swan is a rare event of enormous impact" Nassim Taleb

* "The cardinal ethical rule is formulated as follows: do not possess antifragility at the expense of the fragility of others."

Nassim Taleb

Absolute mimicry is the ability to copy or deprive a certain ability with subsequent acquisition of it. A creature with this type of mimicry can copy an ability at spatial contact and add it to its "piggy bank of abilities", and at physical contact deprive the owner of the ability, taking it for itself, and again add it to its "piggy bank of abilities". This type of mimicry actually makes its possessor invulnerable, since he can use the copied ability without limit, i.e. without the presence of its primary possessor nearby, etc.

* "Any stress in sufficient quantity ... bad or good, love or pain, can break our common sense and give us thoughts and abilities that we can't get any other way."
Chuck Palahniuk's "Diary"