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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American scholar, author, Risk analyst, and former financial trader whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.
Described by @thesundaytimes his book โ€œThe black swanโ€ is one of the twelve most influential books since World War II.

The black swan is about the impact of rare and unpredictable events like

โ€ข 9/11
โ€ข WW2
โ€ข rise of the internet
โ€ข stock market crashes
Taleb created a financial strategy to be prepared for unpredicted events.

In 1987 when the stock market had the biggest drop in history he made enough money to be set for life.
Here are 10 entrepreneurship lessons from n. n. Taleb:
1. Randomness is unknowledge

In practice, randomness is incomplete information.

If you see a pregnant woman the sex of her child is a random matter to you (50% chance of either sex), but not to her doctor.

โ€œThe world is opaque and appearances fool us.โ€
2. Stories are stronger than ideas

People buy stories not ideas.

Taleb himself used the metaphor of a black swan and used stories throughout his book to illustrate his ideas.

Your story needs to be:

- Relatable
- Memorable
- Shareable

โ€œIdeas come and go, stories stay.โ€
3. Challenges are fuel for growth

Challenges are stressors that are beneficial for keeping you strong and promoting growth.

Challenge yourself; challenges that are small enough to not hurt you and large enough to help your growth.

โ€œDifficulty is what wakes up the genius.โ€
4. Get closer to the truth through falsification

Embrace mistakes.

Learn what doesnโ€™t work and what is not true and youโ€™ll find yourself opening creative doors to new ideas faster.

โ€œIt is true that a thousand days cannot prove you right, but one day can prove you to be wrong.โ€
5. Be wary of experts

Every day some expertโ€™s previous certainty is discredited.

- Diets once thought to be beneficial are now ridiculed.
- Governments once passed rules that are considered crimes now.

โ€œThe problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not knowโ€
6. We tend to relate success to our skills and failure to the chance

We tend to forget the many who failed and remember the few who succeed and then create reasons and patterns for success.

โ€œRemember that nobody accepts randomness in his own success, only his failure.โ€
7. Keep things in perspective

A mountain range viewed from the moon might appear smooth and flat. But it doesnโ€™t mean you canโ€™t be harmed if you fall off it.

โ€œIt takes considerable effort to see facts and remember them while withholding judgment and resisting explanations.โ€
8. The barbell strategy

The barbell strategy advocates investing in a mix of high-risk and no-risk assets while ignoring the mid-range of mildly risky assets.

โ€œI initially used the image of the barbell to describe a dual attitude of playing it safe in some areas...
... and taking a lot of small risks in others, hence achieving antifragility... Someone with 100% in so-called โ€œmediumโ€ risk securities has a risk of total ruin from the miscomputation of risks."
9. Accept the certainty of uncertainty

Risk isnโ€™t exactly a game with rules that can be calculated before the game begins.
Although we can try to calculate every risk, weโ€™ll never be able to get it perfectly right.

โ€œThe Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought.โ€
10. Donโ€™t predict the future based on the limited data

Be aware of your weaknesses. If we focus only on what we know, then we open ourselves up to great risks.

"It's better to be aware of what you don't know than certain of what you do"
Taleb is one of the freshest thinkers of our time.
He has been teaching two important Mental Models:
1. The skin in the game

Taleb's thesis is that skin in the gameโ€”i.e., having a measurable risk when taking a major decisionโ€”is necessary for fairness, commercial efficiency, and risk management, as well as being necessary to understand the world.
2. The black swan

Taleb describes a black swan as an event that:

1) is so rare that even the possibility that it might occur is unknown,
2) has a catastrophic impact when it does occur,
3) is explained in hindsight as if it were actually predictable.
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