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Comment by K0balt

3 days ago

Thanks for the book recommendation! I’ll look at that.

>> Embrace the uncertainty and move forward anyway.

This. This is the key factor that prevents attempts at success, or leads to failure by a thousand cuts.

There is no gain without risk. Significant gain usually comes through significant risk. Position yourself in life to be sufficiently resilient to take 10:1 bets with 100:1 odds until you can weather the 100:1 bets with 100000:1 odds. Avoid the 1:50 bets that pay at 1:50 odds like the plague… they are a comfortable quagmire of rotting aspirations.