Mass Amherst).The author has one good point then rants rather incessantly about a wide variety of people and subjects. In addition to his life as a trader he spent several years as an academic researcher (12 years as Distinguished Professor at New York University’s School of Engineering, Dean’s Professor at U. He now spends most of his time in the intense seclusion of his study, or as a flâneur meditating in cafés. His focus in on how different systems handle disorder. Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent more than two decades as a risk taker before becoming a full-time essayist and scholar focusing on practical, philosophical, and mathematical problems with chance, luck, and probability.
A number of other topics, which relate to aesthetics, ways of life, knowledge and much more, have been discussed in this book.
This is an almost impossible task since such events are based on chance. Human beings tend to try and rationalise such happenings almost immediately after they happen. Through a number of examples, the author aims to show his readers how rare and unpredictable events have a deep and lasting impact on a person’s life. The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable is a book that focuses on what has now come to be known as the Black Swan Theory.
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