Brian Johnson explains Nassim Taleb's concept of optionality as a path to antifragility. The practice: pick a goal, list three possible paths to it, then draw an infinity symbol to remind yourself there are always more options. It shifts you from fragile thinking to robust thinking.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one. Let's talk some more about how to become antifragile. We've already talked about it on a high level, so super quick recap. If you're fragile, you break easily. If you're robust, you withstand more pressure until you break. If you're antifragile, you actually get stronger the more you're knocked around. We, of course, want to be antifragile. Achieving this is perhaps the most important thing we can do, hence our obsession with it. In prior plus ones, we chatted about the fact that the obstacle is the way, using the metaphor of a fire consuming everything in its way. Today, I want to chat about another facet of becoming antifragile. Nassim Taleb, the brilliant guy who gave us the word antifragile, tells us that we need to have what he calls optionality. Here's the short story. If you only have one option, this has to work or I'm in trouble kind of thing, then you're fragile. If you have two options, well, I can do this or I can do that, then you're a little better off and more robust, but you'll still break if neither of those two options pan out. But what would happen if you had an infinite number of options you could pursue to attain your desired outcome? Well, then you'd be antifragile. Therefore, when we're facing a challenge, we. We want to chant and write down and remind ourselves, no pressure, no diamonds, until we really get the truth of that statement. And then we want to whoop everything. And then as part of our whoop plan, we want to see that we have infinite options. I like to map out at least three options and then write down the infinity symbol to remind myself that I still have, oh, about an infinite number of other options I can Explore. So today's +1. What's challenging you right now? Let's run it through our infinite optionality process. Step one, think of an important goal in your life. Step two, come up with three potential paths you can take to reach that outcome. One, two, three. What are three options? Fantastic. Step three, write down the infinity symbol. Wonderful. Infinite optionality. Now go crush it, antifragile style.
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