Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This bias causes the survivor to be an unqualified witness of the process.

When we survive, we tend to create a narrative about why we survived. This narrative will, of course, make us look good. It must be good because the character traits we highlight allowed us to survive.// What about our neighbor who had the same character traits, but the tornado hit their house and not yours?//