Culture

We Need To Cultivate The Lost Art Of Antifragility

We’re living in a culture of fragility. Everywhere you look, people are treated like glass, bubble-wrapped away from any possibility of risk or offence. Students especially are taught that they’ll be shattered by different thoughts or opinions, and that they live in a patriarchal, tyrannical system designed to break them.

By Freya India3 min read
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But humans aren’t fragile beings. In fact, history has shown us time and time again that the human race can withstand unimaginable adversity and even arise stronger out of its ashes. Contrary to what society leads us to believe, the human mind isn’t fragile — but profoundly “antifragile”.