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There wouldn’t be room in this entire book for the enormous smorgasbord of familiar firing scenarios…one of which may one day happen to you. A great many, like the one above and all sorts of consolidation and staff-cutting measures, can be frankly stated and endorsed. “Personality clash” with your boss, however, normally should not be the diagnosis. Say instead, “Fundamental policy differences,” and cite some concrete examples. You simply can’t afford to be categorized as someone who can’t get along with people.

Rites of Passage at $100,000 to $1,000,000+

John Lucht

Then it eventually goes back down to zero again: At some point (rarely seen in practice), when an asset is sufficiently attractive, holding even a small amount of it will make you fabulously rich in the good outcome—so there's no reason to hold a ton of it and risk the bad outcome on a large fraction of wealth. This effect takes the optimal allocation back down again toward zero, giving us the hump shape.

The Missing Billionaires

Victor Haghani and James White

The truth was the thought of donning tennis whites and making small talk on a country club tennis court terrified me. My spot on the spectrum will not allow me to pretend to be interested in something I’m not, particularly in group settings. It transports me immediately to prep school, with my mother in her soothing voice encouraging me to be social with the kids in class.

Born to Be Wired

John Malone

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