The Leadership Diaries: Demonstrating Anti-Fragility

A look at the ant-fragility mindset in leadership.

"The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference."

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

According to Google, antifragility embodies the remarkable ability to thrive and grow stronger in facing challenges, stressors, mistakes, and failures.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term "antifragile" in his thought-provoking book Antifragile (2012).

It encapsulates a transformative mindset, inspiring individuals to evolve and grow in the face of challenges.

Unlike resilience, which signifies mere recovery from setbacks, and robustness, which implies the capacity to resist them, antifragility represents a remarkable leap forward.

Resilience allows a system or individual to bounce back from adversity, while robustness enables them to withstan…