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[Anonymous No.14298804]

What have you done to make your life more Antifragile?

[Anonymous No.14298807]

>>14298804
Not samethreading like you

[Anonymous No.14298813]

Strapped guns to my fists

[Anonymous No.14298820]

I started doing pushups and eating more

[Anonymous No.14298831]

>>14298820
How many pushups/day? Plus, how many can you do in a row?

[Anonymous No.14298845]

>>14298831
I do 50 every day, can do in a row about 20

[Anonymous No.14298848]

>>14298804
stop memeing this guy

[Anonymous No.14298867]

>>14298848
despite the memes, Taleb offers good help for doomers.

[Anonymous No.14298980]

>>14298867
I've also found that to be true. I just wish he wasn't that big of an asshole on the internet.

[Anonymous No.14299031]

>>14298848
>>14298807
you people are insane, i've never posted about Taleb here. Just finished reading Antifragile and thought his boomer advices were pretty good. I still don't understand why he proclaims to be a libertarian while hating on big corporations and stuff.

[Anonymous No.14299411]

>>14299031
why would being a libertarian mean you want big corporations to rule the world?

republican‘s are sham ‘libertarian’s

[Anonymous No.14299421]

>>14298804
>wake up every day more depressed than last
>anxiety and general paranoia amplifying as i ramp up cannabis and coffee consumption
yeah i'm as fragile as ever i'd say

[Anonymous No.14299445]

I’ve tried to become more well rounded. I’ve avoided extreme or narrow specializations in both my job and my studies. It’s worked. I’m now trained to work every department at my store at the management level and so I always have the option of 48 hour workweeks even if I get scheduled light, since I can take shifts from any department. I got a second job tutoring through my university, where I’ve majored in English. Also just being successful in general helps with antifragility; I have options for my Masters programs and in my day job everyone wants me in their store.

> tl;dr be more well-rounded and strive to be generally successful.

[Anonymous No.14299447]

I liked Antifragile, even if Taleb seems like an insufferably pompous douche.

But I didn’t find any helpful life advice there.

[Anonymous No.14299448]

I’ve pushed myself to continue setting time for my passions, self-improvement, etc., regardless of whether I’ve been busy, tired, etc. I’ve also drastically reduced the amount of autistic rationalizations that I used to make to avoid doing what was best for me or what could have been a resourceful solution to a new hold-up. Finally, I’ve learned to better manage my emotions, see the world in pseudo-contradictions and shades of gray (instead of black and white thinking), and nurture a reasonable “baseline” for reactions to events and people to lessen my borderline personality disorder tendencies.

In other words, I did everything I could to increase personal agency, and reduce “self”-absorption (which I define as a fixation on a concrete identity, even though it’s mostly illusory or transient).

[Anonymous No.14300722]

>>14298804
I haven't read his book, but I'm glad academia has more arab representation now thanks to him. The lebanese seems to be at the forefront of the arab world in terms of academia.

[Anonymous No.14300735]

>>14299421
put weed in toilet and flush

[Anonymous No.14300752]

>>14299411
If you leave corporations unfettered, they will just follow the tendency to monopoly and grow huge.

[Anonymous No.14300761]

>>14300722
According to him Lebanese are "not nonwhite" lmao

[Anonymous No.14300766]

>>14298804
i thought about learning arab, but i'm not sure if it will be useful once oil runs out or the demand for it drops

[Anonymous No.14300781]

>>14300761
That doesn't mean he's not an arab right? I'm talking about culture and genes which go beyond skin colour.

[Anonymous No.14300786]

>>14300752
That's how it works uh. Boy you're not so bright and it shows

[Anonymous No.14300806]

>>14300781
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/957026905592598528

[Anonymous No.14300820]

>>14298804
Taleb is my favorite philosopher of color right now.

[Anonymous No.14300824]

>>14300806
Seems like cope to me- born in an arab country, speaks arabic, genetically arab- he's def. one.

[Anonymous No.14300825]

>>14300781
>>14300766

He's Phoenician.

[Anonymous No.14300831]

>>14300806
Shit Taleb is even more based than I remember, I would love to watch Harris get shit on in another public forum

[Anonymous No.14300833]

>>14300825
Phoenicians stopped existing before Christ's birth. He's arab.

[Anonymous No.14300845]

>>14300824
Imbecile.
>>14300833
Another imbecile. Lebanese are direct descendants of Phoenicians.

[Anonymous No.14300850]

>>14300845
Oh so he's 3/4 Turk and 1/4 Arab then got it.

[Anonymous No.14300873]

>>14300850
You an imbecile. Taleb has debunked your BS countless times.

[Anonymous No.14300874]

>>14300845
imagine being that good at mathematics and predicting complexity and still thinking you can be 1/4 perfectly Phoenician

[Anonymous No.14300877]

>>14300845
Anyone who refers to himself as a Phoenician is a fucking LARPing faggot and you know it, sure the people who called themselves Phoenicians have left a genetic legacy but that identity is completely dead.
It's gay shit man it's wack

[Anonymous No.14300889]

>>14298804
Absolutely nothing

[Anonymous No.14300893]

>>14300873
>You an imbecile

[Anonymous No.14300902]

>>14300873
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_in_the_Arab_League

[Anonymous No.14300911]

>>14300877
>Phoenicians have left a genetic legacy but that identity is completely dead.
HAHAHAHAHA
http://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(17)30276-8

[Anonymous No.14300922]

>>14300902
Panarabist nonsense. Lebanon is not Arab.

[Anonymous No.14300933]

>>14300911
>>14300922

Seems like Nassim is here and he's definitely more fragile than antifragile

Also
>Speaks arabic
>Culturally arabic
>Part of panarabist organisation

"B-but we're not arabs! We're totally meds!" (They're not mutually exclusive categories fyi)

[Anonymous No.14300937]

>>14300911
I ain't reading that shit nigga, you can give me a summary or don't bother replying to me

[Anonymous No.14300983]

>>14300937
>The results are in, and Lebanese are definitely the descendants the ancient Canaanites – known to the Greeks as the Phoenicians.

>A study based on DNA analysis published this week, reveals that more than 90 percent of the genetic ancestry of the modern-day Lebanese population comes from the ancient people, commonly known from biblical accounts.

[Anonymous No.14300990]

>>14300983
All you had to do was look at his nose and forehead. Physiognomy doesn't lie.

[Anonymous No.14300992]

Lebanese are not Arabic, but they aren't Phoenician either. They descend from a variety of Mesopotamians, but they're not really that mixed with Bedouins so whatever they are, they probably have close genetic continuity with it.

[Anonymous No.14300995]

>>14300990
My man Taleb is very Phoenician in appearance.

[Anonymous No.14301001]

>>14300995
He looks more Assyrian to me.

[Anonymous No.14301178]

>>14298804
Netanyahu looks like THAT?!

[Anonymous No.14301221]

>>14299411
This is like shooting someone and then saying, "what do you mean I wanted to kill him? all I did was manipulate my hand and arm muscles a bit." But then, conservatives say "guns don't kill people, people kill people," as though guns don't massively facilitate killing people--much like libertarianism massively facilitates corporate abuse.

[Anonymous No.14301273]

>>14299411
Stop with this sophistry. You know that unfettered corporatism leads to monopolistic entities or oligopolies.

[Anonymous No.14301381]

>>14298867

Could you summarize, please?

[Anonymous No.14301402]

>>14298845
Nice anon. I've started running again, I feel great.

[Anonymous No.14301648]

>>14301402
How fat are you? I want to start running but I'm a bit overweight (5kg over an ok BMI) and don't know if I should shed some fat first.

[Anonymous No.14301733]

>>14301648
I'm pretty skinny. You should be fine if you build it up slowly and warm up properly. Walking is also very effective as well as cycling so if running is too intense you can do those too.

[Anonymous No.14303160]

>>14301648
Start fasting , and get on /fit/

[Anonymous No.14303918]

>>14298804
>heavy deadlifts
>intermittent fasting
>focus on making online (location independent) income
>throw a few bucks into bitcoin every so often
>re-focus on Lindy books