Human society can be considered an out of equilibrium system characterised by a complex evolution often perturbed by extreme rare events. These perturbations can be both exogenous like pandemics or earthquakes and endogenous like financial crises, wars, scarcity of resources etc. Some of these stressors may also be real unknown unknowns and, therefore, impossible to predict. For this reason, a vital ingredient of a resilient society is not trying to prevent and control all the unpredictabilities that we may face. In- deed this rush towards eliminating all the risks and be assured against everything leaves society extremely vulnerable to the aforementioned calamities .