I'll try to make this as quickly to the point as I can. I'm at a bit of a transition phase in my life (who isn't), which really means I've started reading and running a lot again, and not much else. Seems to be my go-to when my other ventures begin leading me a bit too far out of touch with reality, and where better to get a sobering dose of reality than these forums...
The book referenced is by Nassim Taleb. I stumble across books randomly in my wanderings; I really don't know how much or how little his ideas have caught on. I'm only a couple of chapters in but I decided to post about it before finishing because I can already tell it will be a crystallizing book for me - one in which lots of dots are connected from and to other things I have read and experienced. In a nutshell- the opening got me pretty jacked up and excited about life again, but so does the prospect of seriously running and competing again (this is a cycle for me, I've all but turned my life into an experiment at this point). A question for those wiser than I, who have read the book or know the idea behind it: Am I mistaken in believing that it will be difficult to reconcile the two? Clearly, the concepts of antifragility have vast implications; so more specifically - has anyone applied this line of thinking directly to training?