具体描述
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was.
The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.
Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities.
We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the “impossible.”
For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. Now, in this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don’t know. He offers surprisingly simple tricks for dealing with black swans and benefiting from them.
Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications The Black Swan will change the way you look at the world. Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory.
The Black Swan is a landmark book – itself a black swan.
The book also contains a 4-page glossary; 19 pages of notes; and, a 28-page bibliography in addition to an index.
作者简介
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor. Although he spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute. His work has been published in thirty-three languages.
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读后感
写个读后感也有强迫症似得~不写老觉得这个事没干完... 这是我第一次看书时写了这么多注释~感觉不写个总结式的读后感日志~将来不方便回顾~ 以前曾有种想法~强迫自己每看完一本书然后写个读后感日志什么的~督促自己~ 但后来看的烂书实在太多~不少看过就扔真不值得一提~ 再花几个...
评分这本书提前预见并解释了现在金融风暴。作者实践他自己的理论，在华尔街发了小财，然后定下心来周游全世界的咖啡馆，慢慢写下这本书。用他自己的话概括，this is a "fuck you" book。 智力上有些冲击力，因为作者的意图在于挑战很多“常识”。核心的线索是，金融风暴这种”小概...
评分塔勒布喜欢说一个故事，关于黑天鹅的故事。17世纪的欧洲人们相信所有的天鹅都是白色的，这是牢不可破的信念。直到澳大利亚发现了黑天鹅，视野才重新打开。 黑天鹅的出现证明了我们的认知多么局限，黑天鹅的存在寓于着不可预测的重大事件，它在意料之外却又改变一切。 黑天...
评分写个读后感也有强迫症似得~不写老觉得这个事没干完... 这是我第一次看书时写了这么多注释~感觉不写个总结式的读后感日志~将来不方便回顾~ 以前曾有种想法~强迫自己每看完一本书然后写个读后感日志什么的~督促自己~ 但后来看的烂书实在太多~不少看过就扔真不值得一提~ 再花几个...
评分1、几乎社会生活中的一切都是由极少发生但是影响重大的剧变和飞越产生的。 2、你不知道的事比你知道的事更有意义，因为许多黑天鹅事件正是不可预知的情况下发生和加剧的。 3、如何应对黑天鹅： ①不要预测：能够预测出来的意外就不是意外，对于不可预测的事情做出错误的预测...
用户评价
图书馆没座，遂抄过此书草草翻过。没有看出点在那里。
评分杂志推荐书真的是不能看啊
评分The book itself is interesting enough, but seriously Mister Taleb: we got your point, stop repeating yourself, over and over again!
评分虽然书中的观点有些还行，但是论述的过程实在是又臭又长又杂乱无序。。。如果写到50页到100页的一个长paper已然绰绰有余，搞这么个大部头实在是。。。作者writing skills不敢恭维。。。
评分Common sense for any good historian (or history major). Dislike the writing style. The tone is very annoying.
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