It is our ability to cope with the unpredictable uncertainties in life.

Example:

For example, a cup breaks when it falls to the ground. This is called the fragility of the cup. Brittle resistance does not mean that the cup is not broken, but that the cup has deteriorated or benefited from uncertainty.

Just like a fracture, orthopedic experts will tell you that after the fracture grows back, it will become harder, which is anti-fragility. Because it is broken, it becomes harder, and then it will resist poison after poisoning.

2. What causes people to be anti-fragile?

Prediction will bring vulnerability and a sightseeing life, not a wandering life.

There is a group of people called fragile pushers, who think they can control and predict the whole world accurately. So they designed a large number of transaction structures, a large number of technologies and a large number of people, trying to firmly control the whole world together, but the causal relationship of organisms is not clear.

Many mothers are actually a fragile pusher. They will turn their children's education into sightseeing. They plan to return the content of each stage. Every mother takes her children through all the educational processes. They don't expect an accident. This leads children to be particularly opposed to volatility. They just hope that the accident had better not happen. But the end result is that many people have finished junior high school and high school step by step, and went to universities and even famous universities. After graduation, he found that he still knew nothing, even looked for a job for a while, and later found himself extremely mediocre because he went through a sightseeing life design process.

A rambling person is full of discoveries, and he is uncertain about the future. He doesn't know where good things will happen and where challenges will arise. Therefore, he is always ready to make progress from these uncertainties.

(In fact, parents can also intervene. But you can limit the speed with the intervention of all parents, and don't drive for the children.

2. How to improve the ability to resist vulnerabilities

-overcompensation or overreaction

For example, just like when we were young, we would plant vaccinia or vaccine, that is, let you get sick first, get a little, not too much. Your body has overcompensated and overreacted, and you have become stronger. This is your body's ability to resist fragility.

For example, many best-selling books in the world were once banned. Once you say this book is banned, wow, let's look around. People who don't want to read this kind of book heard that it was banned, so I tried to make a copy and read it. This is a typical anti-vulnerability.

3. How to benefit from uncertainty?

Barbell strategy

Reducing the pain caused by adverse events and ensuring potential benefits are the core of barbell strategy. The premise of this behavior is to realize that many things in the world are asymmetric, and there are many things in the world that can gain great benefits with little risk and cost. That is, limited losses will bring unlimited gains.

Example:

There is a particularly interesting phenomenon, that is, you will find that in the Middle Ages, scientists who made great progress in mathematics, physics and chemistry all saw the names of scientists in physics books and in chemistry books. They have another identity, that is, they are all priests. Why are so many mathematicians and chemists priests? Because the priest is the two ends of the barbell, he can enjoy generous treatment at this end, he can get a lot of money through the church, and at the same time he has nothing to do, so he can do many innovative activities. He occupies both ends of the barbell, he has a stable life, and at the same time he can try hard to try many opportunities that others have no chance to try scientific progress. This is the barbell strategy. He is very picky. Even if he fails in those experiments, he has nothing to lose, but if he succeeds, he will go down in history and make a great breakthrough in human history.

Fan Deng is also anti-fragile. When he was doing a book club, he didn't say that he sold the house at once. Selling a house to start a business, selling a house to start a business belongs to no anti-loopholes. He teaches at the university first, and he can get some salary from the university every month. At this time you will find that I can do it innovatively without hesitation. Because I lost it, I will still be a university teacher. If I fail, I can still be a university teacher, but if I succeed, I will be of great benefit. This is the application of anti-vulnerability.

Several interesting experiments in the book:

1. Buridan's donkey

This is a thought experiment, which is that you can imagine this thing. What is a donkey in Brittan? You put a donkey here. The donkey is thirsty and hungry. Now it wants to eat and drink. Well, on its left and right, the distance is equal, and there is water and food at the same time. Donkeys can drink water or eat food, but donkeys will die. Why? Because it wants to drink water and eat, the distance between the two sides is exactly the same. Therefore, it looks at the water for a while and the food for a while, but it just can't make a decision. Later, he died of hunger and thirst on the way.

People will laugh and say that this donkey is not sick? Think about it, what is the thing that trapped this donkey? What trapped the donkey was certainty, when it was trapped on both sides. What needs to be boosted at this time? A man came over and gave it a random push. No matter whether you turn left or right, you will go there. As long as it can break this balance, it can easily go to eat before drinking, or drink before eating, and it can survive. However, without this randomness, if it must pursue a balance, it will starve to death in the middle. This thought experiment tells us that the pursuit of stability is the bomb of this society. When many people in this society are desperately pursuing stability, this society will become more problematic and anti-vulnerability will become very important.

2. The Turkish principle

It is a turkey, and it will feel that the farmer loves it very much. The farmer will always give it food, and will not let it work, but will send it food every day. Therefore, every day when it sees the farmer coming to the henhouse, it will feel very happy. My farmer is here again. Until Easter (Thanksgiving), that is, Easter (Thanksgiving), you will find that raising you for half a day is killing you. However, judging from the previous data, I will feel how stable life is. Because this life is certain, it thinks its system is stable. In our life, many people live such a turkey life. He thinks the world is stable because he can't see the possibility of change. And most importantly, how is your vulnerability? If you really quit that job, do you still have the ability to live a better life?

Always feel:

The book says that the world should be more like a cat than a washing machine. The thinking of the washing machine is to assume that the whole world can be calculated like a washing machine, calculated like a clock, and then assembled together. This makes him quite vulnerable. The washing machine will break down and wear out. As time goes by, it gets worse and worse, and the most important feature of all living things is anti-fragility.

In fact, the world is like a cat. A cat has 9 lives. Cats can survive if they jump from the sky. Its life is more flexible and more vulnerable than that of an elephant, even though it is an organism. Although the elephant is very big, it seems that the elephant has stronger survival ability than the cat. However, when an elephant falls, it will break, and it will easily die when it is in danger.

The enlightenment of this book to life and work is:

1. Don't be paralyzed by the seemingly comfortable work you have done for several years now, and finally boiled frogs in warm water are eliminated.

At present, if you still want to work in the company, you must have the will to fight hard, or you will commit suicide in the company. Our company is too comfortable. We don't have to punch in at 9 o'clock, and nobody cares. Most people do repetitive work every day, so there is no need to cultivate new skills. At this rate, once you leave this company, you will have no advantage! If you want to stay, you must have your own goals, your own achievements, your own skills and your own work ability, and don't be hurt by the current stability!

Don't be magnified by setbacks in work and life. Sadness embraces every job change and setback, and takes off in setbacks.

Because of the nature of work, our industry often comes into contact with many garbage factories, so we have to go to the factory to squat and quarrel with the factory! My deepest experience is that the moment young people around me get rid of the student spirit, their goods are out of order. After the game in the garbage factory, their thinking and speaking style will be much more mature than that of inexperienced salespeople!

So treat every change in your life as a study plan and increase your anti-vulnerability ability again and again?

child-rearing

I come from the countryside. The environment in the village is poor. There are chickens, sheep, cows and ducks at home. The living environment is not as clean as that in the city, and there is no air conditioning at home. Growing up in this situation, I feel that my ability to resist the maladjustment is much greater, and my physical fitness is better than that of many urban children. I didn't know there was air conditioning disease until I went to school in the county town in high school. Staying in an air-conditioned room for too long is easy to get heatstroke or something! I didn't know until I really worked that many people of the same age have many physical diseases. Because they don't exercise and don't need to work, many young people can't accept the bus for more than 1 hour, and many people don't accept taking the bus. I say this to show that parents don't need to protect their children too well, which will easily lead to the decline of their resistance. In the future, my children will herd sheep as long as they don't die. . . .

4. Don't resign easily, but grasp both ends of the lever.

If you want to make a short video, if you want to open a Taobao shop, don't just quit. 90% loneliness is anxiety escalation failure, and you must bring unlimited gains with limited losses.