Part Three: Those Gray Swans of Extremism; Part Four: The End, Chapter 19: Half and Half, or How to Get Even with the Black Swan Summary and Analysis

Summary

The author profiled himself in Chapter 19. He had split his approaches to situations, half the time being one way and the other half being the opposite, for example hyper-conservative and hyper-aggressive. His ideas about taking risks were opposite those of most people. This split extended to literature and philosophy: "Half the time I hate Nietzsche, the other half I like his prose" (p. 296). He gave solid advice that in order to live the best life, a person should make her or his own rules. If a job had been causing problems, the advice was...