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Hello and welcome to episode 214 of the Mindful Kind podcast. I recently came across a really

interesting concept called anti-fragility. From my research, this concept was first talked about in a book called

Antifragile by Nassim Talib, and while I haven't read the book, I love the idea of antifragility

and I thought I'd share it here with you. First of all, I'll tell you a bit more about what

antifragility actually is, and then I'll share three ways to embrace antifragility to help you live a more

meaningful life. So antifragility is the ability to thrive and grow as a result of stresses,

mistakes, faults and failures. Let me just say that again because I know this might be a new concept.

Anti-fragility is the ability to thrive as a result of stresses, mistakes, faults and failures.

It's the opposite of fragile, which means to be easily broken or damaged.

Anti-fragility also goes a step further than robustness or resilience,

which is the ability to stand up to challenges and cope with them. But unlike anti-fragility,

you don't necessarily grow and thrive as a result of those challenges. I thought I'd share an

example to make these concepts a little bit clearer.

I recently saw a woman on social media share a really horrible message she'd received from someone.

It said all kinds of awful things like the other person wished harm upon her and her loved ones

and that they plan to go to bookstores and write nasty things all over her

books and it actually made me feel sick to see the message. It was just kind of mind-blowing that

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