Black Swans: Stories

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One sees events go in and events go out, but one has no way of determining which produced what effect.

One of the major obstacles that prevents us from knowing the past with certainty is the impossibility of reverse engineering causes for events. And what really is shocking about it all, too, the men who committed incest on their own daughters told a lot of them “You’re so fat, no wonder nobody will ever love you. The book covers subjects relating to knowledge, aesthetics, as well as ways of life, and uses elements of fiction and anecdotes from the author's life to elaborate his theories. But that may well have been a hostage to fortune, because Taleb's follow-up, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, is not quite so smart, alas. 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.If you are still wondering how to get free PDF EPUB of book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Although she reconsiders the moment she sent the piece more than once, she had decided she would “become art, not decoration”.Half the time I could not follow what she was talking about in any of the mini stories contained in this book. The fictional Eve looks back on her actions, of the drug use, of getting clean, of sexual freedom and past relationships, assessing where she is at certain points in her life. Dutch navigator Willem de Vlamingh, by finding black swans in Western Australia in 1697, showed how risky it is to declare something impossible. If we’re surrounded by randomness and cannot plan ahead with certainty, is there anything we can do? Taleb’s black swan theory states that dramatic unexpected events matter more to history than regular happenings.