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#069 - George MacGill - Mental Models 101 - How To Make Better Decisions

Modern Wisdom

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What Is Asymmetrical Risk?

I want to talk about a symmetries. I don't know if it classs particularly as a mental model, but it's somei said,. i think it wonto be as loose as possible, these mental models. And however, it works for you. So this almost comes fromif course it is, it comes from mathematics, right? Whereit's, it's a very, a symmetrical relatioship, like the inverse of symmetry, right? So a way of looking at it is upside and downside risk, right? so a symmetrical risks are something where the upside is incredibly small, and the down side is is hboti bottomless, almost bottomless

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