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Card VI-13: NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB – Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. … You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.

Series VI · Card 13 of 21 · THE COUNTING HOUSE

Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. … You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.

NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB · ANTIFRAGILE · 2012

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Source

“Antifragile”, Random House 2012, prologue, sec. I “How to Love the Wind” (abridged)

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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

Are you a candle or a fire right now?