Show off - a bigger motivation than self improvement

The authorities have proved themselves capable, not only during this visit of the Indian PM Narendra Modi, but every time some guests of importance arrive. I was actually clueless about what they’d been doing then. Strangled by the question, I asked my sister about it. And she said, “Well, your room is always dirty, but every time someone visits home, it’s clean. It’s the same thing.”

That was a kick in the butt. The authorities have grown up to do things, only under the pressure, in the last moment. So, like in any business administration, strict directives and punishment for their laziness, and motivation like giving credit to their efforts, raise in paycheck and innovative workspace would do the trick.

— Hijas Shrestha

Entrepreneurship - A service to global economics

A national entrepreneur day?

To get an idea of how the individual contributes to the ecosystem, consider the dining scene in Manhattan: While the odds are dim if you want to make it as a restaurateur, they’re bright if you’re looking for a bite to eat. To put it in Taleb’s terms, the fragility of the individual contributes to the robustness, or even antifragility--if the group is evolving and not staying the same--of the whole. "We need to respect failed entrepreneurs," he tells Fast Company. "This would make more people take risks and generate growth." At the end of the fourth chapter of the book, he proposes a Natio
nal Entrepreneur Day, one furnished with this message:

“Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of the economic growth of the planet and pulling others out of poverty. You are the source of our antifragility. Our nation thanks you.”


Beyond rippling with Taleb's signature bombast, the quote makes a fair point, one that he rephrases elsewhere in the book: that just as there's no such thing as a failed soldier (so long as he fights with courage), there's no such thing as a failed entrepreneur, even if the company goes belly up. All those failed East Village eateries ensure that you've got the right place for Friday night; "What kills me makes others stronger," he says, in the same way that the deaths of individuals help along evolution.

portion from http://www.fastcompany.com/3003416/how-build-antifragile-career