Nate Meyvis

You get stronger by lifting weights. If you don’t use your muscles, they get weaker. The same holds true for your risk muscle.

There's an interesting kind of de-risking muscle, which is taking something that appears (or is) risky for most or all other people, and figuring out how to lower the risk. I found "Free Solo" striking in part because it was all about Alex Honnold de-risking as much as possible

Put another way: many people who appear very much into taking risks are actually very much into de-risking, & quite risk averse.

I feel like entrepreneurship and poker are two fields in which this distinction comes up quite a lot. "You think I'm shoving because I want variance to increase the strength of my hand? No, I'm shoving because I understand how unlikely that is."

Peanut gallery: "Shoving" means betting all of your remaining chips (which, crucially, does not mean "betting all of your money"; failure != financial ruin). A reason to shove when one believes one has objectively the worse hand is that your opponent doesn't know your hand.