Antifragile

Thoughts on how to get stronger when things are chaotic.

Dr Paige Williams is a conference speaker and runs development programs for leaders. Paige helps leaders from business, government, NGOs and schools learn to thrive through complexity, challenge and change.

As you navigate through this pandemic, recognize the opportunity to grow stronger through adversity, show grit, and think differently.

Two months ago, I wrote an article about the transformational aspects of shock. More specifically, how ‘shock points’ function by undoing the status quo of any system, and that with awareness we can use such stressors to develop rather than knock us down. This notion of improving through stress is a widely researched phenomenon in medicine, and notably documented in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s bestselling book, Antifragile – Things that Gain from Disorder. The basic premise is that antifragility is