Failure helps systems get stronger

It comes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book Black Swan. The main idea is that many human-made systems are fragile. Something comes to stress the system, and it falls apart. Some systems are robust or resilient, which is much better than fragile.

Even better is the idea of b...

The human brain is controlled by two separate systems:

• System 1 - Very fast, it works on intuition and evolves as we encounter common situations;
• System 2 - Slower. We tend to avoid using it too much, but it is mandatory for complex problems...

UTOK, the Unified Theory of Knowledge, identifies 5 different character adaptation systems. A system is an interlocking network of parts that function as a whole. It turns out that we can divide the ways people respond and adapt to their environment via 5 primary systems of adaptation: th...