Posts tagged with ‘black swan’

The Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky, got me thinking a lot about the Black Swan theory. 

The excerpts above are from a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb called The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. The theory is basically how something with low predictability and high impact is really what shapes our world. 

Take that and apply it to our own personal lives. Changes (mental, physical, emotional) happen through shock. If you look back at your own personal history, how many changes in your life happened because of routine? How many happened because of the completely unexpected?