Law of Success

(Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

Be prepared to deal with the unexpected and take advantage of surprising situations that can turn your life into a success story.

Highlights from this book summary:

Black swans cast the history of technology, science, business, and culture;

One of the most dangerous biases is the misuse of standard statistical tools, such as the "bell curve", which ignores black swans;

Other statistical tools, such as "power law distribution", are much better at modeling many important phenomena;

Most predictions are pseudoscience;

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