Alas, the anti-fragile individual who has skin in the game and critically, risks it. Not every time a possibility arises but when the time is right they are all in.

Non fragile by risk rewards and the nature of what living as a true warrior poet is defined by, the truth in doing, and doing with risk of losing, while doing nevertheless. Your examples are those someplace between despair and enlightenment while most beat down. While still getting up.

What I question is that longevity is the metric common to all of them. Time has taken its toll. The result being the toll once paid is not rewarded in these examples unless. Unless what you ask? Unless they apply the nature of the learning of what paying the tolls represents. And when the lose as it relates to their own equation of what is a win or not, they learn and get the hell up, better for it.

Anti-fragile is the character type that is not broken by paying tolls. Nor unknowing for lack of ever trying to examine experiences.

Anti-fragile are the wonders like yourself. A man for all seasons. A warrior poet. Tolls paid and paid over and over again, takes heed, brushes off the dust, and grim and blood and gets back to work. Better for it. For it is what better is all about.

Thanks for your essay. And all you offer from your redoubt, the joint where the warrior poet resides. living abundantly. Anti-fragile as can be.