01883nam a22002657a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005803700330007604100120010908200150012110000260013624500730016225000060023526000320024130000080027350010240028165000310130565000530133665000370138965000110142694200080143794200080144595201450145399900190159820251117174017.0251117b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780141031484  cGiftednSudhakar, 7045818418  aEnglish  a123.3bTAL  aNassim Nicholas Taleb  aFOOLED BY RANDOMNESSb: Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in Markets  a2  aLondonbPenguin Booksc2007  g316  a

Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable?

This book is the bestselling sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. It is all about luck: more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets - we hear an entrepreneur has ''vision'' or a trader is ''talented'', but all too often their performance is down to chance rather than skill. It is only because we fail to understand probability that we continue to believe events are non-random, finding reasons where none exist.

''One of the smartest books of all time'' Fortune

''An iconoclastic tour de force ... nothing escapes his Exocets'' Evening Standard

''Brilliant'' John Kay

''Excellent and thought-provoking ... an entertaining book'' Financial Times

''Wall Street''s principal dissident'' Malcolm Gladwell
  aPhilosophy & psychology   aEpistemology (how do you know what you know?)   aDeterminism and indeterminism   aChance  cLEN  2ddc  00102ddc40708NFICaMAINbMAINcGENd2025-11-13eGiftedg300.00l1o123.3 TALpE1102186r2026-01-19 12:23:41s2025-12-30w2025-11-13yLEN  c196948d196948