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大家的網誌漸漸的都在多產了
而我的呢
有多久
我不會去follow別人的網誌
不過
或許因為開始有了重視的人
無形中　　一切就慢慢的改變
從網誌開始:)

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the ”impossible.” For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. Now, in this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don’t know. He offers surprisingly simple tricks for dealing with black swans and benefiting from them. Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications The Black Swan will change the way you look at the world. Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science tobusiness to probability theory. The Black Swan is a landmark book-itself a black swan. 

所謂黑天鵝，是指看似極不可能發生的事件，它具三大特性：不可預測性；衝擊力強大；以及，一旦發生之後，我們會編造出某種解釋，使它看起來不如實際上那麼隨機，而且更易於預測。Google的驚人成就就是一個黑天鵝事件；九一一也是。作者認為，黑天鵝潛藏在幾乎每一件事的背後──從宗教之興起，到我們個人生活中的大小事件。 為什麼要等到事情發生之後，我們才認得出黑天鵝現象呢？部分的答案是，在應該注意普遍現象時，人們長久以來卻習慣注意特定事件。我們習慣注意已經知道的事情，卻一而再再而三忽略我們所不知道的事情。因此，我們無法真正地評估機會；我們很容易將事情簡化、予以敘述、分類；而且我們不夠開放，沒能珍視那些能夠想像「不可能事物」的人。 多年來，作者一直在研究我們是怎樣欺騙自己，以為自己知道的比實際上知道的還多。我們總是只看到無足輕重的事情，而大的事件卻繼續在你我的驚嘆聲中出現，並形塑著這個世界。本書試圖解釋我們對於「我們所不知道的事物」所知道的一切。作者提出簡單得令人吃驚的技巧，協助讀者面對黑天鵝現象，並從這些意外的大事件獲益。 優雅、驚豔，且應用廣泛，《黑天鵝效應》將改變你的世界觀。塔雷伯是個極為有趣的作者，告訴我們許多慧黠、有點無禮，但很不一樣的故事。他博學多聞，從認知科學、到商學，到機率論。《黑天鵝效應》是劃時代之作──它本身就是黑天鵝事件。 
---節自The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

首先，我很感激來看我網誌的人。

謝謝你們關心我
謝謝你們在默默的角落支持著我不過，若是你只是要來看八卦
找一些茶餘飯後可以閒聊的話題
那麼，我這裡並不歡迎你。