Antifragility

Got some new tattoos I'll tell you about in the days and weeks and months ahead.

Tell you about one of the tattoos, Anti-Fragility, today as well in this episode.

And we relaunched Philosopher's Notes.

As you know, if you've been following along, in 2008, 18 years ago, I decided it would be fun to create a hundred philosopher's notes on a hundred of the best self-development books ever, where I basically pull out the absolute best, most life-changing ideas from these great books.

The challenge that you're facing is a gift and leaning into the discomfort as if you invited it through the door saying thank you for the opportunity to learn and reflect because it's making you better.

Antifragility is alive and well every single time that we overcome these obstacles.

Because you always do know what you're here to create.

It's that little version of yourself that hides deep inside your heart that you are so afraid to even talk about because you're afraid the people around you are going to laugh.

And he says, wouldn't it be better to be anti-fragile, by which he means you become stronger, you become better because of that challenge.

And as a matter of fact, my podcast is called The Anti-Fragility Reframe, because those are two things that I think you need to be successful.

One, you need to be prepared to look at things differently, to reframe situations.

And the other is that when you have a situation, don't just think about just getting over it.

So, uh, some natural flex allows for some exploration, serendipity and some anti-fragility.

Now, um, um, I'm reading currently AntiFragility, which is why I bring, I'm bringing up that particular, uh, topic at the moment quite a bit.

But the leaving capacity, um, one of the major call outs I guess from that...

This particular month th-there's been, and I kinda like kept on noting down, was I've w-for a long time, but maybe others out there are similar in a way, um, I've kind of proved in a lot of different circumstances, whether it's fitness, whether it's business, whether it's, uh, sort of general working life, maybe perhaps now from a parenthood perspective, that I can put in the effort that is needed and potentially and sometimes going beyond it.

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We've spoken on this show before about the concept of anti-fragility.

Anti-fragility, rather.

Going up against enough resistance and fighting through enough struggles to become competent, whether it's splits, matchups, lefties on lefties at the plate, or bullpen arms working up their, uh, burden, working up their load, as it were, over the course of a season.

Uh, manager Craig Albernaz with some questionable moves in the bullpen today after last night doing exactly what he said he wouldn't do in burning rookie Luis De Leon and giving him the loss in his Major League debut.

I can't remember what it's called.

Antifragility or something like, and started creating message boards and communicating with one another.

And then these other things with the hack into Hugging Face and even OpenAI.

Very, very interesting story if you want to follow that one as well.

And that's why there is very real trauma that people deal with.

But I think also that Anti-fragility is something that's really important and that the only way out is through.

We all need to, in some ways, build up our ability to cope in a world that we don't control the level of turbulence and volatility.

So we need to prepare ourselves for potentially challenging times through building up our risk-taking capacity.

One of the early...

Have you read Anti-Fragility?

Anti-Fragile.

Anti-Fragile.

The second, third thing, huh, that I write in my transformation journal is how I was anti-fragile that day.

Anti-fragility is not that you're not breakable.

It's that you have been broken, but because of the experience, because of the way you've been resilient, you handle yourself differently than you would otherwise.

You have more experience, you have more maturity, you have more insight, and you can look at a situation with more strength and then identify it in yourself.