The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms By Nassim Nicholas TalebThe author of the modern classics The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb expresses major ideas in ways you least expect in this collection of aphorisms and meditationsnow expanded with fifty percent more material than the hardcover. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from the Greek myth of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection, either by stretching them or by cutting their limbs. It represents

endless negotiations with sherpas

Christian consults theologians

high-vibration stones for healing and transformation

They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield―both had important careers in the Israeli military―and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences

common cause

until Gabby Holland moves in next door

as fate would have it

Discovered in the archives of the Napoleon Hill Foundation

and they've never even met their grandmother

Is the hundred year old question that the reporter asked of Mallory still an expression of sincere curiosity about mountains and mountaineering or a symptom of an ever-deeper well of uncertainty about why anyone does anything at all

and the vision that allowed four young men from Liverpool to transform popular music and serve as pioneers for artists from Coldplay to David Bowie

George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s