#mental-model #philosophy # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Barbell strategy The Barbell strategy probably emerges from the world of [[Trade]]: 85% safe investments, 15% extremely speculative. That tries to stick 15% negative events magnitude below the 85% positive events. **...clipping of downside [[Philosophy/Mind/Risk]]s of harm--reduced pain from adverse events, while keeping the benefits of potential gain.** This model is generalized to other field. # Health [[Louis/archived/Health/Barbell strategy]] # Lifestyle 85% - [[Via Negativa|Less is more]] low cost - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Lindy Effect]], high paranoia about everything modern i.e. easy, highly [[Asymmetric actions]] (high benefits, low cost). 15% of the time - Traveling - High exposure to the unknown - Spéculative [[Nootropics]] - [[Seeking discomfort]] **Steppenwolf'ish** ([[Hermann Hesse]]). >The worshipper of Bacchus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, physical or spiritual, he recovers an intensity of feeling which prudence had destroyed; he finds the world full of delight and beauty, and his imagination is suddenly liberated from the prison of every-day preoccupations. > ~[[Bertrand Russell]] >Prudence versus passion is a conflict that runs through history. It is not a conflict in which we ought to side wholly with either party >~ [[Bertrand Russell]]