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- 128pagine
- 5 ore di lettura
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In this profound and playful book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb presents his ideas about life in the form of aphorisms, the world’s earliest - and most memorable - literary form. Procrustes was a character from Greek mythology who abducted travellers and invited them to spend the night in a special bed, which they had to fit to perfection. They never did. Those who were too tall had their legs chopped off; those who were too short were stretched. Every aphorism here is about a Procrustean bed of sorts – we humans, facing the limits of our knowledge, the unseen and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas, reductive categories, specific vocabularies and pre-packaged narratives. Only by embracing the unexpected – and accepting what we don’t know – can we see the world as it really is.
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The Bed of Procrustes, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2011
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- Titolo
- The Bed of Procrustes
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Editore
- Penguin Books
- Pubblicato
- 2011
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 128
- ISBN10
- 0241954096
- ISBN13
- 9780241954096
- Serie
- Incerto
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Storie vere, Commercio, Business & Management, Temi psicologici, Tematica filosofica, Filosofia, Psicologia, Scienza, Economia, Giornalismo d’opinione & Saggi, Finanza, Aforismi
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2010
- Titolo originale
- The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
- Valutazione
- 3,75 su 5
- Descrizione
- In this profound and playful book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb presents his ideas about life in the form of aphorisms, the world’s earliest - and most memorable - literary form. Procrustes was a character from Greek mythology who abducted travellers and invited them to spend the night in a special bed, which they had to fit to perfection. They never did. Those who were too tall had their legs chopped off; those who were too short were stretched. Every aphorism here is about a Procrustean bed of sorts – we humans, facing the limits of our knowledge, the unseen and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas, reductive categories, specific vocabularies and pre-packaged narratives. Only by embracing the unexpected – and accepting what we don’t know – can we see the world as it really is.