Quotes About Vulnerability

Our aversion to variability and desire for order, and our acting on those feelings, have helped precipitate severe crises. Making something artificially bigger (instead of letting it die early if it cannot survive stressors) makes it more and more vulnerable to a very severe collapse-as I showed with the Black Swan vulnerability associated with an increase in size.

Stoicism's Emotional Robustification Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile.

why did we build something so fragile to these types of events?" Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not.

you'd even rather have a failed real person than a successful one, as blemishes, scars, and character flaws increase the distance between a human and a ghost.

as societies gain in complexity, with more and more "cutting edge" sophistication in them, and more and more specialization, they become increasingly vulnerable to collapse.

In a system, the sacrifices of some units—fragile units, that is, or people—are often necessary for the well-being of other units or the whole.

For the fragile, the cumulative effect of small shocks is smaller than the single effect of an equivalent single large shock.

The turkey problem can be generalized to any situation where the same hand that feeds you can be the one that wrings your neck.

fragility and absence of skin in the game.

robust" is certainly not good enough. In the long run everything with the most minute vulnerability breaks, given the ruthlessness of time—yet our planet has been around for perhaps four billion years and, convincingly, robustness can't just be it: you need perfect robustness for a crack not to end up crashing the system.

if something is fragile, its risk of breaking makes anything you do to improve it or make it "efficient" inconsequential unless you first reduce that risk of breaking.

What is fragile will eventually break; and, luckily, we can easily tell what is fragile. Positive Black Swans are more unpredictable than negative ones.

We can mistake the antifragility of the system for that of the individual, when in fact it takes place at the expense of the individual

fragility is in the dosage: falling from the 20th floor is not in the same risk category as falling from your chair.

as they are hedging the possibility of their falling into the same situation some day.

I have no problem with risk taking, just please, please, do not call yourself conservative and act superior to other businesses who are not as vulnerable to Black Swans.

Heikot toimivat tarpeidensa mukaan, vahvemmat velvollisuutensa.

Everything nonstable or breakable has had ample chance to break over time.

It hit me that the rich were natural targets;

A higher concentration of dopamine appears to lower skepticism and result in greater vulnerability to pattern detection;

One vicious attribute is that the longer these animals can go without encountering the rare event, the more vulnerable they will be to it.

Just as a little bit of fire here and there gets rid of the flammable material in a forest, a little bit of harm here and there in an economy weeds out the vulnerable firms early enough to allow them to "fail early" (so they can start again) and minimize the long-term damage to the system.

Large animals are more fragile to shocks than small ones—

blindness to fragility, selective memory, and absence of skin in the game.