{"id":29298,"date":"2022-10-28T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T18:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=29298"},"modified":"2022-10-28T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T18:23:50","slug":"go-beyond-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/go-beyond-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Go beyond resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder<\/em> was written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He also authored a NY Times best-selling book called The Black Swan<\/em> in 2007. The Black Swan<\/em> discusses the reality of our incomprehensible world impacted by the Black Swans – \u201clarge-scale unpredictable and irregular events of massive consequences.\u201d[1]<\/span> The Black Swan<\/em> highlights the impossibility of the human capacity to predict nor calculate the cause and effects of the Black Swans<\/em>. And in this book Antifragile<\/em>, Taleb brings his vast life experiences and wisdom from being an essayist, mathematical statistician, distinguished professor, and hedge fund manager to be more Antifragile<\/em> \u2013 a build a life and a world beyond \u201cresilience or robustness\u2026 the antifragile gets better\u201d[2]<\/span> after every Black Swans. The book is divided into seven sections: 1. The antifragile 2. Modernity and the denial of antifragility 3. A nonpredictive view of the world 4. Optionality, technology, and the intelligence of antifragility 5. The nonlinear and the nonlinear 6. Via negativa 7. The ethics of fragility and antifragility. Through his lengthy and thorough discussions, Taleb asserts to build up a property of antifragility in our life, in our agencies, and in our world \u2013 To \u201cdeal with the unknown, to do things without understanding them and do them well.\u201d[3]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m not too sure if Taleb got this line from Polanyi or perhaps it was his tacit knowledge, but he said, \u201cwe know more than we think we do, a lot more than we can articulate.\u201d[4]<\/span> The world in the past couple of years all suffered from a global Black Swan called Covid-19, and I wondered how much antifragility was built into our globally different countries and societies. As Taleb mentioned, we are somewhat \u201cpart of the present collective and future progeny. Both present and the future tribes exploited the fragility of individuals to strengthen themselves.\u201d[5]<\/span> In my view, chapters 21 and 22 offered prophetic insights into the aftermath of Covid-19. One of the rising global phenomena that I see affecting business, church, family, society, medicine, marketing, and almost all other arenas of our world is coming from these desires to live longer and live well after Covid-19. Every country and every church, and every government is scrambling now to build antifragility into their own organizations to live longer and better after Covid-19. History seems to reveal a circular cycle of Black Swans to Antifragility, death to resurrection. One of the greatest factors that separate from the 1st<\/sup> world to the rest of the 2nd<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup> world are standards and availabilities of medicine and health care.<\/p>\n

From our recent advance to Cape Town, I witnessed many of the instabilities of society and current fragilities within humanity\u2019s conditions that were rooted out from the antifragility of the desire to live longer and live better. Even though they experienced one of the greatest victories in overcoming the apartheid injustice, the struggle didn\u2019t stop there. The amazing victories from two decades ago are now transformed into a new disorder that demands a complete makeover in the housing crisis caused by a lack of quantities and rebuilding of equal standards in housing qualities. I was not confident that current political leaders would be capable of bringing that kind of level of reformation and transformation to South Africa. I think that in very similar ways, every leader is facing fragile expectations of desires to live longer and better, and richer. These empty messages of just living longer and better and richer are becoming more and more prevalent in our American society, and emerging young adults and youths are dreaming of becoming empty people that just want to be comfortable and rich. What builds resilience or, as Taleb would argue, builds antifragility? I would argue that the antifragility of life will begin from the moment that one accepts not just the morbidity of life but also the recognition of a creator who gives life as a gift. It is a gift that is required to shine forth in the midst of chaos and darkness.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/span> Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder<\/em>. Reprint edition (New York: Random House Publishing Group, 2014), 6.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/span> Ibid, 3.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/span> Ibid, 4.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/span> Ibid, 35.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/span> Ibid, 370.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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