Taleb's book and premise doesn't just cover human behaviour and mindset in a Stoic philosophy although there are common points. It covers wider systems: Politics, Biology, Innovation, Economy, Life decisions, etc.
I suppose the book's premise is more about finding out how a system can be setup such that it is either resistant to or improved by variability, uncertainty, and unknowns.
A real world biology example would be the multi-purpose shape of the beak of a crow versus the specialized beak of humming bird.
The humming bird is more succesful in specific environment but it is more fragile if this environment were to collapse. The crow maybe not be as optimized but is "Anti-fragile" to eco-system changes.
I am simplifying but that is the central premise. The book goes into a lot more depth specially when re-visiting ancient history across different human eras and the 'lessons learned' from those periods.
I suppose the book's premise is more about finding out how a system can be setup such that it is either resistant to or improved by variability, uncertainty, and unknowns.
A real world biology example would be the multi-purpose shape of the beak of a crow versus the specialized beak of humming bird.
The humming bird is more succesful in specific environment but it is more fragile if this environment were to collapse. The crow maybe not be as optimized but is "Anti-fragile" to eco-system changes.
I am simplifying but that is the central premise. The book goes into a lot more depth specially when re-visiting ancient history across different human eras and the 'lessons learned' from those periods.