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Card VI-10: NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB – Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives for a reason.

Series VI · Card 10 of 21 · THE COUNTING HOUSE

Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives for a reason.

NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB · SKIN IN THE GAME · 2018

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Source

“Skin in the Game”, Random House 2018, ch. 18 “How to Be Rational About Rationality” (ending)

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About the author

Lebanese-American essayist and risk analyst (b. 1960). Author of “The Black Swan” (2007) and “Antifragile” (2012). His frameworks of randomness, fragility, and robustness deeply resonate in Bitcoin culture.

About the source

Incerto: Taleb’s book series on chance, risk and uncertainty, including Antifragile (2012) and Skin in the Game (2018).

The question on the back

What in your life has survived every crisis?