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What’s the opposite of a person or organization that’s fragile?</p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.571em;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21.984375px;background-color:rgb(248,243,234)">

If you ask most people this question, they’ll likely say “robust” or “resilient.” But philosopher <a href="http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/" target="_blank" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(135,36,15)">Nassim Nicholas Taleb</a> would say that’s not the right answer.</p>

<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.571em;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21.984375px;background-color:rgb(248,243,234)">He argues that if fragile items <i style="padding:0px;margin:0px">break</i> when exposed to stress, something that’s the <i style="padding:0px;margin:0px">opposite</i> of fragile wouldn’t simply <i style="padding:0px;margin:0px">not </i>break (thus staying the same) when put under pressure; rather, it should actually get <i style="padding:0px;margin:0px">stronger</i>.</p>

<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.571em;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21.984375px;background-color:rgb(248,243,234)">We don’t really have a word to describe such a person or organization, so Taleb created one:<i style="padding:0px;margin:0px">antifragile</i>.</p>

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