Anti-Fragility

There is a popular word "anti-fragile" which is catching a lot of attention these days. In recent global business summit also, along with PM Modi, a lot of business leaders emphasized on the anti-fragile concept, that caught the attention of policymakers and world leaders. The idea revolves round the concept of turning adversities to opportunities.

Without a doubt, life is going to throw you challenges, but one of the biggest challenges many people have is answering the question Now What? Well with the survival instinct, most of us love to go through the pain of growth, because we are resilient. Also because we are born anti fragile.

Let me explain what that means and why most people believe the key to success is resilience and anti-fragility.

The term is coined by world-renowned mathematician, statistician and professor Nassim Taleb in his book "Antifragility: Things that Gain from Disorder" and I strongly believe that growth comes when we embrace and learn from the disorder and darkness in our lives and understand why we feel the way we do and more importantly how to use that for our own personal growth so we can impact the world in a more positive way, instead of expecting the world to give us the answers, because the truth is, everyone’s answers lie inside them not outside them.

In the book, Taleb shared the following definition:

"Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. Let us call it anti-fragile. Anti-fragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the anti-fragile gets better."

The book's central theme is that we must learn how to make our public and private lives (our political systems, social policies, finances, etc.) anti-fragile, rather than simply less vulnerable to randomness and chaos.

Like a seed is planted in the dark, it goes through uncertainty as it pushes through the darkness before approaching the light. The seedling accepts it will get battered by the wind and rain, but uses the elements and environment to strengthen its roots, accepting the rain as essential to growing and understanding that life comes in seasons and we need to get the best out of all the opportunities that come to us.

The Antifragile understands that life is about freedom of mind, inner peace, and service to others, without compromising ourselves. The Antifragile seeks true abundance, knowing the universe has its back even in the hardest times.

We are not separate from our environment we exist within it, we are both the solution and the problem, the light and the dark.

Have a great weekend.

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