Book Review | Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb Rate : **.5 /5
The first thing that I would say, I did not like the authors style of writing. The things could have been interpreted in much better way. One should not write anything didactic in first person pronoun provided it’s mandated. The inconceivable use of author’s own words of wisdom, his boasts of qualifications, ideologies etc present wrong notion and ask for more patience to go through.
The author calls ‘ the black swan event’ i.e that deviates beyond what is normally expected of a situation and that would be extremely difficult to predict. This randomness in situation play extremely important role in our life wielded with luck factor. It’s weird to see that most of us attribute the success obtained in this randomness to our skill. People don’t understand randomness and probability. Besides, people who continues to be successful out of this randomness , act (due to wrong way of understanding probability) if something really big and unusual (devastating) will never happen to their strategy.
The author has tried his best to support his points by numerous examples excerpted from daily life. However, sometimes the ideology becomes so much stringent and imposed that it becomes hard to gulp in.
Overall, the book hardly copes to draw reader’s interest throughout the pages and present the point vividly.
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