How long does it take to read Antifragile?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Genís Sánchez Barberán, Albino Santos Mosquera
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Genís Sánchez Barberán, Albino Santos Mosquera takes about 11 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 43 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2012. 639 pages, about 175,725 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time. Praise for Nicholas Nassim Taleb "[This] is the lesson of Taleb. and also the lesson of our volatile times. There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable."--Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point "[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne."--The Wall Street Journal "The most prophetic voice of all. [Taleb is] a genuinely significant philosopher. someone who is able to change the way we view the structure of the world through the strength, originality and veracity of his ideas alone."--GQ "Changed my view of how the world works."--Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate"-- "Examples of Antifragility: When you stress your body by lifting a big weight, your body gets stronger. New York has the best restaurants in the world because particular restaurants are always going bust, making the aggregate stronger and stronger, or antifragile. Evolution is antifragile. Certain business and investment strategies are antifragile. Older things tend to be more antifragile than newer ones - because they've been exposed to more Black Swans"--
Subjects: Resilience (Personality trait), PSYCHOLOGY / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Social aspects, Uncertainty (Information theory)
