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Be anti-fragile

Life's not easy, life goes on. Rather than gripe (we know the saying "人生不如意事十之八九"), it is important for us to focus on risk management in our daily lives and how to become anti-fragile.

Buying insurance, setting stop-losses, cut losses and bad connections out of our lives, look before stepping and don't seek cheap thrills. That's risk management at its very least.


Taleb's concept of anti-fragile is one level above risk management and robustness. 

It is about how chaos can make one better and stronger. Don't fear volatility, uncertainty and disruptions. Instead view them as opportunities. 



Quoting the video, we should learn to "transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation and desires into undertaking".


Toughen your mindset

If you have tough desire, then be prepared for a tough process working towards it.

Another point highlighted in the video for our mind training is - we can imagine worse case scenario, imagine we have nothing, are we able to cope, emerge and survive stronger? It's about training a resilient mindset and life practice.

Change with changes

Mindset like "不执著。大无畏。" It's not about not caring, it's about embracing uncertainty and changes.

When we cannot change the world, we got to change ourselves.

Step out of our comfort zone, be unafraid to change and try new things.

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Surviving the many hurdles into mid life, I am striving to live my life better and away from monotony. I aim to grow and not be living everyday like yesterday. It's amazing sometimes how one good decision can result in a cascade of positive events. Like how I decided to join a sports hobby chat group through a friend's intro, invited more friends to it, be active in the group and got to know some fantastic travel buddies who like outdoor adventure sports. (Those who don't know me in person would think I am a frail nerdy lady, since I looked like one. They would be surprised haha.)

At the moment, I am just cruising (躺平) in work, relationship and life. Happiness level? Likely neutral. Just started a gratitude journal on mobile app which doubled up as a diary for special events. This post shall serve as a remind myself to try and be anti-fragile.


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