*"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

"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

* However simple the tricks may seem at first glance, t

hey 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"