The Procrustean bed

From the author of the international bestseller The Black Swan comes a carefully crafted work of aphorisms and meditations that, in a hilarious and surprising way, account for the worldview of one of the most sagacious and heterodox thinkers of our time.
"If you know with some precision how your day will be in the morning, you are a little dead: the more precision, the more dead you are."
Each aphorism included in this book deals with a Procrustean bed: humans, faced with the limits of our knowledge, the invisible and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and the world into generic ideas, reductive categories, and specific terms. Only by embracing the unexpected and accepting what we do not know can we see the world as it is.