A Black Swan Is A Highly Improbable Event With Three Principal Characteristics: It Is Unpredictable; It Carries A Massive Impact; And, After The Fact, We Concoct An Explanation That Makes It Appear Less Random, And More Predictable, Than It Was. The Astonishing Success Of Google Was A Black Swan; So Was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Black Swans Underlie Almost Everything About Our World, From The Rise Of Religions To Events In Our Own Personal Lives. Why Do We Not Acknowledge The Phenomenon Of Black Swans Until After They Occur? Part Of The Answer, According To Taleb, Is That Humans Are Hardwired To Learn Specifics When They Should Be Focused On Generalities. We Concentrate On Things We Already Know And Time And Time Again Fail To Take Into Consideration What We Don't Know. We Are, Therefore, Unable To Truly Estimate Opportunities, Too Vulnerable To The Impulse To Simplify, Narrate, And Categorize, And Not Open Enough To Rewarding Those Who Can Imagine The 'impossible.' For Years, Taleb Has Studied How We Fool Ourselves Into Thinking We Know More Than We Actually Do. We Restrict Our Thinking To The Irrelevant And Inconsequential, While Large Events Continue To Surprise Us And Shape Our World. Now, In This Revelatory Book, Taleb Explains Everything We Know About What We Don't Know. He Offers Surprisingly Simple Tricks For Dealing With Black Swans And Benefiting From Them.--jacket. Part One - Umberto Eco's Antilibrary, Or How We Seek Validation -- Part Two - We Just Can't Predict -- Part Three - Thos Gray Swans Of Extremistan -- Part Four - The End. Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [331]-358) And Index.
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- Science & Math
- Mathematics
- Applied
- Statistics
- Applied
- Mathematics
Publisher : Random House
Author : Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
Language : English
Edition : Annotated
Published :2007-04-17
Number Of Pages : 366
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1400063515
ISBN-13 : 9781400063512
Item weight : 1.65 lb
Dimensions : 1.6 in x 6.4 in x 9.3 in
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