#risk #freedom #unknown #rationality # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Risk]] - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Hack/Seeking discomfort]] - [[Readwise/Books/Osho - Courage the Joy of Living Dangerously]] - [[Readwise/Books/[email protected] - Skin_In_The_Game]] - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Pessimism]] # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Risk  >The heart is always ready to take the risk, the heart is a gambler. The head is a businessman. The head always calculates–it is cunning. > ~[[Osho]]  >Life can only be lived dangerously—there is no other way to live it. It is only through danger that life attains to maturity, growth. One needs to be an adventurer, always ready to risk the known for the unknown. And once one has tasted the joys of freedom and fearlessness, one never repents because then one knows what it means to live at the optimum. Then one knows what it means to burn your life’s torch from both ends together. And even a single moment of that intensity is more gratifying than the whole eternity of mediocre living. > ~[[Osho]]  >Start with a simple exercise: always remember, whenever there is a choice, choose the unknown, the risky, the dangerous, the insecure, and you will not be at a loss. > ~[[Osho]]  >We close this chapter with a few summarizing lines. One may be risk loving yet completely averse to ruin. The central asymmetry of life is: In a strategy that entails ruin, benefits never offset risks of ruin. Further: Ruin and other changes in condition are different animals. Every single risk you take adds up to reduce your life expectancy. Finally: Rationality is avoidance of systemic ruin. > ~[[Osho]]  >The best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own. > ~[[Kahnemann]]   >If you do not undertake a risk of real harm, reparable or even potentially irreparable, from an adventure, it is not an adventure. > ~[[Nassim Taleb]]