#Mind up books full#
As the narrator of Fight Club puts it: "If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention." Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter, and dark, anarchic genius, and it's only the beginning of his plans for revenge on a world where cancer support groups have the corner on human warmth. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. "THE FIRST RULE ABOUT FIGHT CLUB IS YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT CLUB."Įvery weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. The book also contains a 4-page glossary 19 pages of notes and, a 28-page bibliography in addition to an index. The Black Swan is a landmark book – itself a black swan. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory. Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He offers surprisingly simple tricks for dealing with black swans and benefiting from them.Įlegant, startling, and universal in its applications The Black Swan will change the way you look at the world. Now, in this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don’t know. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the “impossible.”įor years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan so was 9/11. lessĪ black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable it carries a massive impact and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “ 1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party.
Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”- The New Yorker
“Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions.
With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition.
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