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Terri Lonier, PhD's avatar

"What does not kill me makes me stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

You've given it a great update, Ed. Antifragile, indeed.

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Ed Latimore's avatar

Thank you!

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Chelsea Coates's avatar

This was SUCH a read !!! Loved it.

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Ed Latimore's avatar

Much appreciated!

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Jack Dixon's avatar

I love this premise, Ed: "Humans are antifragile creatures." 100% true. The more we endure, the stronger we become.

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Ed Latimore's avatar

We get stronger by facing hard things. There is no way around this fact, despite our modern lifestyles. In fact, our physical and mental health outcomes (lately) have demonstrated this fact.

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Jack Dixon's avatar

Without a doubt. I couldn’t agree more.

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JFT Beach 🇬🇧 🏊 🧘‍♂️'s avatar

This is a good piece and really compellingly written. Having read and re-raed 'The Comfort Crisis' by Michael Easter I agree and recognise most of your points. I must check out that "anti fragile" book as that sounds up my street. Thanks for writing this, I just subscribed.

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Terri Seydel's avatar

Very interesting thoughts on how we’ve interrupted the important work of our immune system. I wonder if we further damaged it with pandemic lockdown and hyper-focus on self protection while in super controlled environment of our own homes. Immune system issues have become the new epidemic, do we have ourselves to blame?

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Ed Latimore's avatar

Funny how that works. As life gets easier, the birthrate goes down. Such an interesting counter intuitive conclusion.

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