Life, markets, business - they are not built for comfort or precision. They are built for stress. Sometimes you might tend to think that volatility is an anomaly. But volatility is present by default. After that you focus more on removing uncertainty instead of positiong yourself so uncertainty works for you - yes I get it. Uncertainty is not something we have been built for, but if you want to be trader, you have to live with it.
That’s the core idea of Game of Asymmetry.
Predicting future will not help you, even if you could do that, but surviving in irrational and unpredictable space can do pretty good job.
If you are too fragile - you will break under the stress.
Robustness is the way to really be able to go risk on other trade, even if you lost money before.
And anti-fragile people grow because of this ability.
You might not realise that, but you might be unknowingly designing fragile systems. You optimize for