About the book: 2012 / Over the last decade alone, humanity has experienced a number of severe disasters, shocks and cataclysms that do not fit into the most fantastic predictions. Sorbonne graduate and New York financial guru Nassim Taleb calls such unpredictable events Black Swans. He is convinced: they are the ones who give impetus to both history as a whole and the existence of each individual person. And in order to succeed, one must be prepared for them. Immediately after the release of “Black Swan,” the author brilliantly demonstrated his “non-theory” in practice: against the backdrop of the financial crisis, Taleb’s company earned (not lost!) half a billion dollars for investors. But his work is not an economics textbook. These are the thoughts of an extraordinary person about life and how to find your place in it. The publishing layout is saved in a4.pdf format.