3-2-1: On living a well-rounded life, managing risks, and enjoying the worst-case scenario
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3-2-1: On living a well-rounded life, managing risks, and enjoying the worst-case scenario
The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (And Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life”
Tim Ferrisstim.blogA life spent focused on achieving security with respect to time, when in fact such security is unattainable, can only ever end up feeling provisional – as if the point of your having been born still lies in the future, just over the horizon, and your life in all its fullness can begin as soon as you’ve put it, in Arnold Bennett’s phrase, ‘into prop
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In the language of optionality: having first opened as many options as possible, and secondly, exploited those that are most useful, then, give them away. This order is important. Without a buffer of optionality to protect against shocks in your own life and open up opportunities, you have no ability to take risks.