Pritesh

"The Grand Canyon wouldn't be so popular if it was just a uniform trench. The trick is controlling and managing chaos and turning it into something useful."

So much of what matters in investing – this is true for a lot of things in life – is how you manage the psychology of uncertainty. The problem with looking back with hindsight is that nothing is uncertain. You think no one had anything to worry about, because most of what they were worrying about eventually came to pass.

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You walk to get out of your head. To breathe. To let your mind drift without crashing.

You don’t walk to fix the problem—you walk because you need space from it.

As financial advisor Carl Richards says, “Risk is what’s left over after you think you’ve thought of everything.”

That’s the real definition of risk—what’s left over after you’ve prepared for the risks you can imagine.

Risk is what you don’t see.”

The past wasn’t as good as you remember. The present isn’t as bad as you think. The future will be better than you anticipate.

A key part of bringing strategy to creativity is that it removes, “because I feel like it/said so” from the conversation. Once you have a clear strategy of who and what it’s for, anyone can chime in and make it better.

PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO

Commitment issues aren’t about the options. They’re about the operator.

When you know what you want, most choices eliminate themselves.

The best story wins. Not the best idea, or the right idea, or the most rational idea. Just whoever tells a story that catches people’s attention and gets them to nod their heads is the one who tends to be rewarded.