Inventing Risk and Talking Yourself Out of Opportunities

In this video, I tell a little story that came from a book that I'm currently reading called Platform by Cynthia Johnson (aff link: It got me thinking about they ways in which we "invent risk". In other words, a lot of us tend to imagine that situations are more risky than they are, when in reality we are just talking ourselves out of an opportunity that has very little downside.

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