A New Quest

The insecure way is the secure way

I first came across the concept via Joseph Campbell when he talked about the 'insecure way is the secure way'. Ever since hearing this I've been fascinated by this concept - which I believe has always existed in our subconscious and even within old stories, until the concept was neatly coined as Antifragility - a term used by Nassim Taleb in his work 'Antifragility - things that gain from disorder'. Within that work, Taleb elaborates on this concept via stories, anecdotes, mathematics and heuristics.

My aim here is really to continue my interest, follow my curiosity and share along the way whatever I find. I hope to learn more by collating what I stumble across, and then attempting to organise the information (further stories, insights) into some sort of synthesis (tools, patterns and heuristics) which I hope can help us recognise our warped sense of security and instead strive haphazardly and boldly towards a personal antifragility - a worthwhile ambition within a world that has always been, and always will be, uncertain and in constant flux.