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he honestly and poetically shows us how we can take advantage of darkest adversity and turn it into golden opportunity

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable [2010] paperback FASHI he is stopped at borderThe phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything and take advantage of uncertainty What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con artists? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper? This book is all about Black Swans: the random events that underlie our lives, from bestsellers to world disasters.