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Acceptance and The Narrative Fallacy in the Times of COVID-19

Ian Hathaway

They desperately want things to go back to the way they were before, so they pretend that everything is fineā€”that life as we knew it can resume with minimal further disruption. Nassim Nicholas Taleb also addresses this in his 2007 book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Our book has been miraculously well-timed.