How to Be an Anti-Fragile Writer
Part 1: The main reason you’ve failed in the past…
What’s the opposite of fragility?
Some would say resilience...
Others would say robustness…
Author and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb would say anti-fragility.
Fragile items break during stress.
Anti-fragile items grow stronger.
The basic idea is that you not only survive the storm, but thrive in it.
As humans, we don’t like stress, but we do need it.
Without wind trees grow so tall they simply fall over.
It’s because of the wind that a tree’s roots extend in all directions below the surface.
These roots hold up the tree, so it can survive decades of unknown elements and harsh conditions.
The craft of writing — and your life — should be treated the same way.
In an effort to improve at anything, you must develop a system of anti-fragility.
A system beneath the surface.
Over the next five posts, I’m going to tell you how to create an anti-fragile system for your craft.
We’ve all been fragile for too long.
It’s time to become anti-fragile.
[Stay tuned for the next post: The Transformative Power of Randomness]
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