Risking your own skin: Hidden asymmetry of everyday life

In his new, sharply provocative and at the same time extremely pragmatic book, the inimitable Nicholas Nassim Taleb tells how important it is to identify and filter nonsense, distinguish the theory from practice, superficial competence from the present. You will learn what rationality is in complex systems and the real world, symmetry and asymmetry, and what is the logic of risk accepting. Filling the usual concepts with new meaning, such as “fair society”, “professional success”, “personal responsibility”, and not afraid to touch the ego of recognized idols, Taleb debunk the hypocritical ideas and actions of apologists of military intervention, investors of the securities market and religious preachers. With the examples of Hammurabi and Jesus Christ, Roman and Byzantine emperors, Senecy and Donald Trump Taleb shows that the most important quality uniting famous heroes, selfless holy and brilliant businessmen, cannot tolerate the risk of others