Audio Book Description:
Maverick thinker Nassim Nicholas Taleb had an illustrious career on Wall Streetbefore turning his focus to his black swan theory. With its revolutionaryexamination of the impact of highly improbable events, thisNew York Times, best-seller took the world by storm. Not allswans are white, and not allevents-no matter what the experts think-are predictable. Every so often, one of these unpredictable events occurs and has an immeasurable impacton the world-such as 9/11. Taleb argues the problem is that humans focus too much thought onwhat they already know, and notenough on what they don`t. Thetrick is understanding how to deal with black swans when they appear, and how to benefit fromthem. Witty and irreverent, THE BLACK SWAN holds thepower to change-for the better-the way people think about the world.
