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The Black Swan - The Impact Of The Highly Improbable

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Capture: Expect the unexpected

"The Black Swan is a must-read for those interested in challenging their assumptions about the future. Taleb's creative approach to predicting Black Swan events can help users learn how to think outside of the box and prepare for the unexpected. With his expertise and engaging writing style, Taleb offers readers a unique perspective on how to anticipate rare events that can have a significant impact on our lives."

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The Black Swan - The Impact Of The Highly Improbable

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ISBN: 9781912128204
Publisher: Macat
Date of Publication: 2017-07-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Business, Economics, Philosophy
Goodreads rating: 3.17
(rated by 12 readers)

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One of the primary qualities of good creative thinking is an intellectual freedom to think outside of the box. Good creative thinkers resist orthodox ideas, take new lines of enquiry, and generally come at problems from the kinds of angles almost no one else could. And, what is more, when the ideas of creative thinkers are convincing, they can reshape an entire topic, and change the orthodoxy for good. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s 2007 bestseller The Black The Impact of the Highly Improbable is precisely such a an entertaining, polemical, creative attack on how people in general, and economic experts in particular view the possibility of catastrophic events. Taleb writes with rare creative verve for someone who is also an expert in mathematics, finance, and epistemology (the philosophy of knowledge), and he martials all his skills to turn standard reasoning inside out. His central point is that far from being unimportant, extremely rare events are frequently the most important ones of it is highly improbable, but highly consequential occurrences – what he calls Black Swans – that have shaped history most. As a result, Taleb concludes, improbability is not a reason to act as if a possible event does not matter. Rather, it should inspire the opposite reaction.
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