The Path to Genuine Resilience: Adopting Antifragility
My life and those around me have informed me that, in an ever-changing and ever-reactive world, being resilient is no longer enough. The old resilience, returning to the previous state after failing, has failed to meet today’s complex and unpredictable realities. A new responsibility for individuals is to actively cultivate an ability to go through struggle, rather than bounce back. But instead of adhering to a traditional version of stability, they must embrace adaptability and transformation as inherent components of survival. We need to try, instead, to reach antifragility, a term introduced by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book
