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Word count 523 · Read 02021-10-22 22:20
Looking up to the big name of "Black Swan" for a long time, I recently took the time to use the fragment time to read the book from beginning to end. Although it is Taleb's famous work, there are many technical terms in physics and mathematics in the book, which feels more difficult to read than "Anti-Fragility" and "Fools Who Walk Randomly".
Fortunately, after reading two books in advance, I have a certain knowledge reserve and can barely adapt to the author's ironic style of expression. Reading this book is really love-hate, not only time-consuming and laborious, you need to "nibble" word by word (if you are not careful to understand the meaning in reverse), but also have to use relevant reference materials to help understand the more professional content in the book.
When encountering such an author who likes to talk in the right and back, you must be particularly careful, otherwise it is easy to be taken into the "ditch", and the best way is to contact the context to think about what he really wants to express.
As the saying goes, hate is deep, love is cut. Although the reading threshold of this book is high and it is not "friendly" to ordinary readers such as me, the quality of the book is really good and represents the conscience of the industry.
Everything is knowledgeable, there are very few people in this world who can see through and say that they can be broken, and the courage to be hated is not so easy to cultivate.
In my eyes, Taleb's book is an upgraded version of the "Adult Cultivation Manual", which not only tells us the correct and effective way of thinking, but also imparts rich and valuable life experience. Knowing and understanding the "black swan" theory is not the focus of the book, knowing and understanding that we are black swans is where the author's good intentions lie.
As the author emphasizes in the concluding paragraph, "It is easy to forget that our very existence is great luck, a small event of possibility, and a great accident." ”