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Wealth, Optionality, and the Deliciousness of “No”
The Economic Times features a quote each day. Today’s quote is from Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Lebanese-American New York Polytech Professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist; whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty. You are rich if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept. There’s…
Alignment, alignment-adjacent, antifragility, clarity, complexity, freedom, giving vs. receiving, inauthenticity, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, no is a complete sentence, on being rich, pretending, probability, Quote of the Day, The Economic Times, uncertainty, volatile environments, wealth building, wealth measurement -
Overnight Success REALLY Doesn’t Happen Overnight
With headlines like “From Zero to $1 Billion in Two Years” describing what happened to Instagram and “They did it! YouTube Bought by Google for $1.65 Billion in Less than Two Years” it’s no wonder that we’re seduced and romanced into thinking about what it would be like in our own lives to go from…
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From Affirmations to Afformations
It was the charismatic Tony Robbins that I heard say on an audio tape years ago “Ask a lousy question, you’ll get a lousy answer.” On a trip to NYC in 1997 I saw this little book at Barnes and Noble by Robbins called “Giant Steps – Small Changes to Make a Big Difference –…
Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
High-stakes decisions deserve disciplined thinking
You don’t need to move faster.
You need to reduce unnecessary risk.
When your decision affects income, reputation, or stability,
pause with structure before you act.
Giselle Hudson | Pre-Decision Advisory for Leaders Under Pressure 