In his 2012 best-seller Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, Nassim Taleb divides the world into three categories. Things that suffer in stressful conditions he describes as ‘fragile’ and those that are largely unmoved or unchanged by stress are ‘resilient’. For those things that actually thrive or grow stronger as a result of stress, meanwhile, Taleb has coined the term ‘antifragile’.
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