Unlimited Upside

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Decisions have outcomes. Some of our decisions have well-known outcomes with limited downside and limited upside.

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Other choices we make have unknown outcomes. In some cases, there can be tremendous downside. For example, if your bike doesn’t clear the gorge, you’ve kicked the bucket

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If all goes well, you’ve impressed some people with your accomplishment and foolish pluckiness.

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Unlimited Upside

On the other hand, some moves we make have limited downside with the potential for unlimited upside.

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I’ve made a lot of investing mistakes. I bought into the dot-com bubble and rode some stocks to great highs and then quickly down to zero. Whoops. It was a great time to learn because my portfolio was minuscule.

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