Paperback.Pub Date:2022-10 Pages:284 Language:Chinese Publisher:CITIC Publishing Group In this book. Taleb starts with the Greek myth Procrustes' Bed and expresses his views on the absurdity of the world in an unexpected way. In order to make the height of visiting travelers match the length of the bed. Procrustes would shorten or lengthen their bodies. While modern civilization brings convenience to human life. it also produces many negative effects-it is accustomed to adapting to technology.

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Title: Taleb's Wisdom and Proverbs The crystallization of Taleb's thoughts. author of Black Swan. Antifragile and Fat Tail Effect. to cope with the world of random changes CITIC Press(Chinese Edition)
Publisher: CITIC Press Corporation
Publication Date: 2022
Language: English
ISBN 10: 752174487X
ISBN 13: 9787521744873
Binding: paperback
Condition: New

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By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Nassim Nicholas Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects - modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery. Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.

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