When analyzing problems or questions, it’s important to get past the first answer and find the root cause. In my experience, the first answer usually only looks at the immediate problem or obvious solution, ignoring everything around it.

The URL provided takes a similar approach to risk. In many instances, we may not do something because we view it as risky. We may avoid showing people our website, or posting a blog on Hacker News, because we risk that people will tell us it’s not good. By looking at the overall picture though, we may learn that many actions pose very little objective risks, and our ability to get over subjective risks is key to being successful.

What’s incredible is that lots of things pose largely a subjective downside but have an objective upside. That means that if you can get past caring about those downsides, you can leverage yourself heavily and can repeatedly expose yourself to risks with big objective upsides with little effective downside.

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