Decision Science: Heads I Win A Lot. Tails I Lose A Little
Decision Science · An Asymmetric Life Manifesto Heads I Win a Lot. Tails I Lose a Little. Stop guarding the little you might lose. Start building for the lot you might win. Capped Downside + Uncapped Upside + Repetition = Asymmetric Return Read the Manifesto Test the Bet The Bet Worse First Four Ways Not Me, Not Now Field Test Somewhere between here and elsewhere, I learned that most people are playing the wrong game. Flip a coin. Heads, you win a lot. Tails, you lose a little. If a stranger offered you that bet, you would take it all day and twice on Sunday. You would mortgage the whole afternoon for it. And yet almost nobody lives this way. We spend our one life guarding the little we might lose and flinching from the lot we might win. This is a manifesto about turning that around. Not with willpower. Not with a vision board. With arithmetic, and the nerve to act on it. A symmetrical life protects the downside. An asymmetrical life protects the soul. Th...