Struck me that we don’t sufficiently distinguish between 2 kinds of risks: 1. Risk of failure 2. Risk of victory that is only revealed to be pyrrhic in hindsight when true costs are revealed Most of the risk for reasonably talented and competent people is type 2.
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Chances are you won’t know whether the prize was worth the price until you’ve lived with the success for long enough for both to be integrated into your identity and you become the fully transformed product of both the effort and reward. You are a series of price+prize deltas.
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Big life level-ups: graduations, marriages, parenthood, home ownership, boat ownership all seem to be of this type. You’ll either love or hate the growth delta based on whether prize-price is revealed in retrospect to be negative or positive, once it’s in your bones.
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