Quotes About Adversity

So the antifragile can lose for a long time with impunity, so long as he happens to be right once; for the fragile, a single loss can be terminal.

Risk and ruin are different tings.

Too much success is the enemy (think of the punishment meted out on the rich and famous); too much failure is demoralizing. I would like the option of having neither.

It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread

It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread out over a longer one.

Stay robust to how others treat you.

poverty makes experiences

George Soros, a complex man who thrived on rare events

Avoid calling heroes those who had no other choice.

Who is this book written for?

I love taking small losses,"he says. "I just need my winners to be large.

he had so little to lose. She accepted since she had no choice.

Stoicism makes you desire the challenge of a calamity.

O tempo é o melhor teste de fragilidade — abrange volumosas doses de desordem

and I should base my decisions around that.

After things got bad for him, they somehow recovered by some invisible hand, and he was led to believe that it was his intrinsic property to recover from hardships by running every time into a new opportunity. He

It is hard to stick to a good discipline of mental write-off when things are going well, yet that's when one needs the discipline the most.

like the chronic stress we experience daily from small doses of negative feelings

this avoidance of small mistakes makes the large ones more severe.

Da mesma forma, quando trabalhava como trader, uma profissão repleta de altas doses de aleatoriedade, com contínuos danos psicológicos que perfuram até as profundezas da alma do indivíduo, eu punha em prática o exercício mental de aceitar, todas as manhãs, que a pior coisa possível já havia acontecido

But no problem; the people you meet when riding high are also those you meet when riding low, and I saw the fellow getting some (more subtle) abuse from the same accountant before he got fired, as he eventually ran out of luck. You are free—but only as free as your last trade. As we saw with Ahiqar's wild ass, freedom is never free.

He knew that he would either be fired or left alone. He was left alone.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

setting wealth back by several decades