Black Swan
Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb What we anticipate, hurts lesser than what comes as a adverse surprise. Black Swan is an attempt to create awareness about the happenings that we’re unaware of. The platonic fold is the explosive boundary where the platonic mindset enters in contrast with messy reality, where the gap between what you know and what you think you know becomes dangerously wide. It is here that the Black swan is produced. The apprenticeship of empirical sceptic An empirical skeptic is an individual who places more emphasis over empirical evidence rather than drawing conclusions based on anecdotal observations. Nassim Taleb explains the triplet of opacity, which defines the three missteps a human mind makes when approaching history. This includes: An illusion with regards to understanding : we think we know what’s going on in the world that’s more complicated(or random) than we can even imagine. Distorted outlook : when it comes to retrospection w...