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the reason gambling and risk taking is associated with leadership is because taking risk always involves an element of not waiting for permission. you just DO the thing and the rest is up to God

e.g. imagine aladdin taking jasmine on a magic carpet ride, just charging into the unknown and mcgyvering problems as they arise with no planning whatsoever problems seems to just move out of the way as if he were some kind of "chosen one" who can afford to always be winging it

risk taking however does not have to require "Actual" risk in that you don't need to YOLO into something with negative expected return like a lottery ticket it just requires the will and tenacity to stick with something through ups and downs

as i explore here, even a game with mathematically guaranteed positive return, you will encounter high volatility the ability to take risk is about not letting these ups and down affect you. the downs don't break you. the ups don't engorge your egohttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1383129373608275968 …

there's the obvious sexual parallel as well where the game can feel rigged and cruel e.g. not wanting someone to ask for permission but ALSO not wanting them to be wrong. it requires a massive amount of risk b/c being wrong is such a huge slap to the ego

it's a test in a way too though. is someone gambles their life savings on black, even though it's a kind of sexy risk taking. it's also stupid. very very stupid. someone who kelly maximizes their knowledge/wisdom/life-experience edge through consistent betting is "better"

they can afford to take risk because they can afford to have their ego slapped. they know how to play the game in a non-retarded desperate fashion

ego also is theoretically infinite unlike money which is measurable and can hit zero however acting as if ego is infinite is the equivalent of being thick-skinned to the point of obnoxiousness