In life, when people encounter an injury event, they pay more attention to the negative reaction caused by the event (such as post-traumatic stress disorder), but it is difficult to notice its positive reaction (post-traumatic growth). Lucretius, a Latin poet and philosopher, said, "Only a fool would think that the highest mountain in the world is the one he saw with his own eyes."
Simply put, the antonym of vulnerability is anti-vulnerability. Toughness can make things resist impact, and anti-fragility can make things better.
Why are the more popular stars more vulnerable to cyber attacks? Because criticism itself is an anti-vulnerability to repression. Why do netizens focus on attacking someone? Because TA can make herself famous by attacking someone. If you have never heard criticism from the outside world, you have not caused envy from the outside world. But the role of anti-vulnerability is that if we can survive this stage, we will benefit a lot.
Those who try to hurt us but fail to defeat us will make us stronger.
The author points out that the emergence of anti-vulnerability is conditional, and the stimulation frequency of stressors is very important to people. We usually perform better under acute stimuli than under chronic stimuli. Of course, randomness is an indispensable part of real life.
In other words, the life script of each of us is not static, and various uncertain factors make life alive.
Therefore, "evolution" also comes from this. We need to learn from other people's mistakes, build an adaptive thinking in randomness, and leave more powerful factors in gene coding.
Again, Nietzsche said, "What can't kill me will only make me stronger".
Baudelaire said in the poem Albatross: "A bird destined to fly in the sky, if trapped on the ground, can only look clumsy and ridiculous, because its wings make it difficult to walk."
The advantage can't be exerted, just like a bird with feathers can't fly. It must break free from its cage or cut off its wings. We think that everything is completely controllable, and eliminating randomness means eliminating risks, which is simply a big mistake. In fact, the greater the fluctuation of a system, the less likely it is to encounter the "black swan" incident.
For an inappropriate example, a company's headquarters area is usually better than most non-main business areas even if its business level is average. Why is this happening? Because "well informed". They must continue to study in order to better adapt to local competitiveness.
The anti-fragile system is not only adaptable, but also unpredictable. Most modern societies have become accustomed to making decisions with big data, but the richer the data, the higher the error rate of the data. Overreliance on data can have serious side effects.
Because of the asymmetry brought by success, human beings lose far more than they gain. Imagine that the pain of losing wealth is actually far greater than the joy of gaining wealth. Therefore, investing in good deeds can enhance emotional assets and emotional control. After all, the potential gains outweigh the potential losses, which is also an anti-vulnerability to fluctuations.
To sum up, the author once again put forward the suggestion that "less is more" (also mentioned in Black Swan).
In the second half of this book, the author puts forward many practical theories.
For example, we have forgotten what we instilled in school, but we still remember what we decided to learn.
For example, many human decisions are based on vulnerability, not right or wrong.
For example, when a person has no choice but to take some actions, regardless of the cost, painful behavior occurs.
For example, the greatest and most powerful contribution to knowledge is to eliminate what we think is wrong.
For example, the natural characteristic of technology is that it can be replaced by itself.
For another example, you must accept the fact that you don't know everything.
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Anti-vulnerability actually gives us another possibility of life to a great extent, which promotes our continuous growth. Our life has always been full of risks, some we know and some we don't know. Some people can only talk, but they are confident that they can bring you insults, but these insults are nothing more than the cries of livestock. And the real mission of human beings is to stop gossiping.
Finally, quote a sentence from the author as a conclusion.
"If you don't feel hungry, delicacies will be tasteless; If there is no effort, the result is meaningless; If you have not experienced pain, you will not understand happiness; Faith will not be strong without suffering; Being deprived of personal risks, a moral life is naturally meaningless. "
ISBN: 978752 17 13978
Publishing House: CITIC Publishing House
Date of publication: June 2020