Things I learned from this week's episode:

Fragile items break from stress. Antifragile items get better from it.

Resilient or Robust are not the opposite of fragile. Both of these two items stay the same under stress.

Think of the images from mythology

Achilles - Fragile Phoenix - Resilient Hydra - Antifragile

Antifragile systems consist of many fragile parts.

Think of the restaurant industry - It is hard to start a successful restaurant but because of that we can find a lot of really great food. But the restaurant industry is antifragile because there will always be people who want to go out to eat.

Nature is antifragile but animals and humans are quite fragile. The natural world gets lots of feedback and therefore learns and get stronger because of the feedback from the fragile animals or people.

Antifragile systems work because they build extra capacity when put under stress. Think of our muscles - the small fibers are fragile and break when put under stress but also then grow back even stronger

Parenting - we develop a capacity to care for our children

Driving - I have become antifragile in traffic and weather situations after years of driving.

Other thoughts - a bankers or corporate persons job is actually more fragile due to its reliance on one source of income for one company. If the company falls or decides to let you go then you are out of your livelihood. However a taxi driver's job is more antifragile. They rely on smaller payouts, or fairs each day. Which makes for a more volatile situation meaning one day you might have a big payoff or another you may have no customer but if you are fired by a person that is just one small piece of your income and doesn't have as much of an effect on you.

I think it is pretty awesome that we as humans actually learn to become stronger because of the chaos and that is how our Heavenly Father planned it.