The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Condition:Very Good Rising on merit to captain

Rising on merit to captain his own vessel

Believe in the power of miracles

A similar fate seems to have befallen Oscar Kahn

And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Condition:Very Good Rising on merit to captainA black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet weespecially the expertsare blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay, On Robustness and Fragility, which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.