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The problem is that when you don’t go to the trouble of getting to know who you are, what your triggers are, what your blind spots are, and what motivates you, you’ll unavoidably do things you’ll regret. If you avoid addressing conflict, you’ll explode in frustration at someone because you’ve let small issues build up. Do you keep your thoughts close to your chest?
From Start-Up to Grown-Up - Grow Your Leadership to Grow Your Business
Alisa Cohn
Men are like clouds. They are driven forward by a mysterious and invisible wind against which they are powerless. They think they are in control and laugh at the weakness of the clouds, but their wind is a thousand times stronger than the one blowing up there.
We close this chapter with a few summarizing lines. One may be risk loving yet completely averse to ruin. The central asymmetry of life is: In a strategy that entails ruin, benefits never offset risks of ruin. Further: Ruin and other changes in condition are different animals. Every single risk you take adds up to reduce your life expectancy. Finally: Rationality is avoidance of systemic ruin.
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