"The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man'a guiding ideal."
Reasoning that any book cover combining the words "Captain" with "Blood" could not fail to be stimulating, I bought the book. Since that time, I have read Captain Blood numerous times, around twice a year on average - without question, it remains my favourite book of all time.
In his book Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb goes to great lengths to describe a phenomenon that, for some reason, has no word for it in any language (2). This phenomenon, the opposite of fragile, he dubs "antifragile."
It seems utterly amazing that such a core feature of natural organic systems, indeed of life itself, has no real word to describe it other than the word "antifragile." What is the reason for this?
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