Antifragile. Things that Gain from Disorder

The book of Taleb «Antifragility» attracted me by extremely positive reviews. Having bought this book, I opened it with expectancy of enjoyment.

Turning over page by page, I expected to read some new ideas, but in the most of cases I saw disrespect to colleagues and really rude comments. Although the book is written in a beautiful manner, it is for people who read a lot.

If you have not enough time to read, it can be a little bit difficult to perceive the language. The idea, that I liked (but it is not new), is that nobody gets a prize for useful inactivity. That is why we have a lot of fuss in a world that could be harmful.

For example, a doctor, who allows your body to be cured by itself, doesn’t get any premiums, any praises. In other case a doctor, who convinces a patient that he needs an operation, cures him, putting him at risk and after that he earns a huge amount of money.

The author writes that the need promotes the development and difficulties promote the success. He writes that modern educational system is not effective because of lack of real practice. He also says that we shouldn’t set equal skills «to do» and «to talk».

But hasn’t the same been written a thousand times before?

In my humble opinion, this book is for general readers or for people who want to know that someone smart agrees with their thoughts.