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Risking Your Own Skin: The Hidden Asymmetry of Everyday Life

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Risking Your Own Skin: The Hidden Asymmetry of Everyday Life
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In his new, sharply provocative and at the same time extremely pragmatic book, the inimitable Nicholas Nassim Taleb tells you how important it is to identify and filter nonsense, to distinguish theory from practice, superficial competence from real competence. You will learn about rationality in complex systems and the real world, symmetry and asymmetry, and the logic of risk-taking. Filling familiar concepts such as "just society," "professional success," and "personal responsibility" with new meaning, and without fear of hurting the egos of recognized idols, Taleb debunks the hypocritical ideas and actions of apologists for military intervention, stock market investors, and religious preachers. Using the examples of Hammurabi and Jesus Christ, Roman and Byzantine emperors, Seneca and Donald Trump, Taleb shows that the most important quality that unites celebrated heroes, selfless saints, and brilliant businessmen is not to transfer risk to others. "I love to be surprised. In keeping with the principle of mutual benefit, I call the reader on a journey that I would enjoy myself." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
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