The term anti-fragile describes things that have the capacity to not only tolerate stress but to flourish and grow as a result of it.

Everybody will face completely unexpected events. When we have limited exposure to unexpected events, we will likely find navigating them difficult. However,...

The principle in philosophy and rhetoric is that one should interpret other people’s statements in their best, most reasonable form, not in the worst way possible.

When you think that your feelings are real, you may believe that other people have worse intentions than they ...

Three great untruths are spreading throughout college campuses, high schools and many homes. These untruths are rarely taught explicitly. Instead, they are conveyed to people by the rules, practices, and norms imposed on them, often with the best intentions.

1. T...

University professors are generally left leaning in their politics, yet the percentage of professors who lean left has increased in recent years. 

A more uniform group of people will cause a decline in the quality of scholarly research. Because they share a similar view, they won’t be as ri...

Many colleges encourage students to indulge in these cognitive distortions:

1. Emotional reasoning. Confusing feelings with thoughts or reality is a cognitive distortion.
2. Catastrophizing imagines a sequence of events. But it's seldom true. 

Encourage potential changes to the local education system.

• At the elementary level, suggest minimal homework and more recess with minimal supervision.
• At middle and high school levels, cultivate individual virtues such as humility, teach debate and encourage debate clubs, and...

• Give people the benefit of the doubt.
• Practice the virtue of intellectual humility.

Teach your children Cognitive Behaviour Therapy so they can learn to recognize and moderate the hallmarks of emotional and motivated reasoning.

The “dignity culture” is increasingly giving way to “victimhood culture.”

• Dignity culture is characterised by assumed dignity and worth regardless of what people think of you. People are expected to have enough self-control to think little of irritations, slights, mino...

Acknowledge that children are anti-fragile.

Encourage them to have unstructured and unsupervised time to learn how to judge risks for themselves. They should get the opportunity to learn how to deal with frustration and disagreement.

• Encourage children to spend more time outdoors.
• Place clear but reasonable limits on device time. 
• Light use of screen time is not harmful, except if it displaces the many other activities children could be doing. 
• Chldren should have no social media until high schoo...

Parents have become overly concerned with the safety of their children. This has led to less free play, less independence and more fear instilled in children, which may increase the desire for safety provided by third parties for young adults.

Keeping children safe is important, yet trying ...