Today, I climbed up and talked to everyone about a more weighty topic, and it was also a hot question. I accidentally saw this problem.
Regarding this question, I thought, from university to now, if I had to choose a kind of ability, most people did not.
I want to go, eh! That's it! Anti-fragility ability!
Some people may think this word is a bit raw, but it was mentioned in my previous article, but it was just a stroke, without sharing it in detail.
For example, in the following articles.
I believe that some readers who like to read must have heard of this term, and if used properly, they can benefit from the uncertainty in the future.
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What is anti-fragility capability?
The word "fragile" should be understood by everyone. A glass cup fell on the ground and broke. We can say that this cup is fragile. So the opposite of fragility is anti-fragility.
At this time, someone might stand up and retort, isn't the opposite of fragility strong?
Don't worry, listen to me explain slowly. If a person is fragile in life, the one we usually hear most is that we must live strong. This seems to have made us think that the opposite of fragility is strength.
However, in order to describe the relationship between strength and anti-fragility, we threw a ball of paper on the ground. The paper did not change in any way. We can say that the ball of paper is stronger than a glass.
If we throw a ping pong ball on the ground, it will bounce, and we call this state and behavior anti-fragile.
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Why have this ability?
As we said just now, each of us is very fragile, ranging from various uncertain events in life to the entire society and the country facing many uncertain future events. For example, we don’t know when we will be laid off, we don’t know when we will get sick, and we don’t know when there will be war in the future. We are not able to accurately predict whether or not things will happen in the future.
In addition, we have to face birth, old age, sickness and death, natural and man-made disasters, and many uncertain and bad things in life and the future. In the face of these uncertain things, we seem to become powerless, and many people can only do nothing but contemplation. Its change.
When the term anti-fragility was proposed by the best-selling author Taleb, this idea of benefiting from uncertainty was widely spread. Although we cannot predict the future, we can increase our own anti-fragility so that we can benefit from this uncertainty.
Two little "chestnuts" around:
A few days ago, a reader chatted with me privately and said that when the leader said the wrong thing, he was dissuaded from it.
But have you ever thought about being fired before this chat? In fact, the matter of being fired before chatting is also a kind of uncertainty. Anti-fragility capability is to let us learn how to benefit from such uncertain events.
Another thing that happened to me was that when I took a taxi with a colleague, the uncle driver kept emphasizing the importance of wearing a seat belt with me and the colleague sitting in the back, and the tone was very heavy, the driver I seem to be particularly afraid of accidents. I have been driving for half an hour and have been emphasizing the topic for half an hour.
The uncle driver said that every time a passenger in his car, he has to nag, because he knows that an accidental car accident can hardly save everything. But most of the passengers didn't seem to care what the driver said, and there were many uncles who were nagging, impatiently telling him to shut up.
The reason why many people don't pay attention to it is because this kind of thing will not happen to them. Once it happens, it will be cool~, then it will be useless to say anything.
But I can deeply understand that the driver's anti-fragility ability is very strong. At that time, I was sitting in the co-pilot. I particularly understood the driver's mood and anti-fragility ability, so I was very happy to go with the driver. The uncle talked in full swing.
No one knows that as a driver, there will be an accident on that day in the future. As the saying goes, he often walks by the river, how can it be wet. Therefore, if you want to benefit from uncertain events, you must be prepared.
Through the two little chestnuts above, we realize that the world is becoming more and more fragile, and there are more and more uncertain factors. In the face of such a world, we must learn to deal with it. Anti-fragility is our ability to deal with it.
The above I only briefly cited two small cases in life, but there are many places where anti-fragility is used in other aspects of life, and the rest depends on your personal flexible use.
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How to exercise this ability?
Speaking of anti-fragility ability, I think of a person with strong anti-fragility ability, that is, Master Kong.
His requirement for his own life path is "a state has a way, then you will be an official; a state without a way, then you will be embarrassed."
The general meaning of this sentence is that when the country is prosperous, I can come out as an official; if the environment is not good, I will go home as a teacher and teach others to learn the Book of Songs and the Book of Changes.
You see, Master Kong has a good anti-fragility for future uncertainties and can benefit from it. This is the first point I want to say to exercise anti-fragility ability, called "barbell configuration".
No matter what you are doing, whether you are a part-time job or starting a business, you need to be prepared and arrange your time, energy and resources reasonably. So there will be no hanging on a tree.
Take my own chestnut, such as writing. If someone is willing to read what I write, I can appreciate the value and meaning of sharing. If one day nobody reads what I wrote, I think it’s okay, because writing itself is a process for me to grow and learn, so it’s a good thing for Xiaolu.
No matter how many people pay attention to me in the future, I can benefit from this uncertainty. This is also my personal anti-fragility in writing.
The second one I think is particularly important is to use information "asymmetry".
There are many things in the world that do not grow linearly. There are very few things that actually grow linearly, but more of them are nonlinear growth. This kind of nonlinearity brings a lot of uncertainty. We can use this This kind of uncertainty maximizes the benefit in the limited loss .
For example, the smile curve mentioned above is a good illustration of anti-fragility. It's getting late, and Xiaolu is talking about this today. To learn more anti-fragility capabilities, I shared two books with everyone at the end of the article.
At last
Life is full of various random and uncertain events. In the face of these uncertainties, we should treat them with a permissive attitude, embrace them, and even benefit from their uncertainties.
Anti-fragility-benefit from uncertainty! I know why I think anti-fragility capabilities are important, but most people don't have it.
Recommend two anti-fragile related reading books, "Anti-fragility" and "Black Swan", both of which were written by Taleb.
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