![]() ![]() Now, in this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don’t know. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the “impossible.”įor years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. ![]() For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan so was 9/11. A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable it carries a massive impact and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. ![]()
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