The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms Audiobook (Free)

By the writer of the modern classis The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas with techniques you least expect.

The Bed of Procrustes took its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who produced his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s watch of contemporary civilization’s hubristic aspect effects-modifying humans to fulfill technology, blaming fact for not fitted economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what could be tested inside a classroom, and convincing people that employment isn’t slavery.

Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have already been living with but never recognized.

With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the present day diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.