Your relationship with risk and opportunity is broken

Your relationship with risk and opportunity is broken.

THIS IS KEY FOR ASCENDANT MEN (18–50 years old)

Modern men are losing out because they have a distorted relationship with risk.

The more chaotic the times, the greater the risks and the greater the opportunities. That scares the majority of men today, who see the chaos and become stuck in “risk avoidance” mode.

Our goal should be to move from risk avoidance to opportunity seeking and to stay in opportunity seeking mode as long as we can. This creates the very best lives and futures for us and the people we care about.

There are four healthy modes you can operate in, with increasing levels of energy and agency needed:

�🏻Risk avoidance.

⬆️Positive: This mode helps you keep what you have.

️Negative: Stagnent, eventually, entrophy will devastate your situation if you don’t grow out of it.

�🏻Use it when: You are a young child without adult protection, when nearing the end of your life, or when you don’t have resources to recover from mistakes.

�🏻Risk management.

⬆️Positive: This mode helps you face periods of unavoidable increased risk with fewer losses.

️Negative: No matter how well you manage risks, they will wear you down eventually, without wins to offset them.

�🏻Use it when: You are about to be hit with a big risk, and you need to weather the storm so as to take advantage of future opportunities or in conjunction with opportunity seeking.

�🏻Opportunity alert.

⬆️Positives: Passively watching for opportunity requires little risk or resources.

️Negatives: If you are not in the right place at the right time, you might not come across any opportunities, and then entropy gets you.

�🏻Use it when: You are in an opportunity-rich environment and have more opportunity than you have resources to capitalize on them.

�🏻Opportunity seeking.

⬆️Positives: You gain agency and control over your future as you seek out opportunities that suit you and your needs. This mode has the highest chances of rewards outpacing losses over time.

️Negatives: This mode requires levels of agency, emotional discipline, mastery, mindfulness, and patience that most people have not yet developed.

�🏻Use it when: You have become a mature, high-agency person who can recover from setbacks and still come out stronger.

You can move from the low-energy, low-agency modes to the higher-agency, greater-reward modes by:

�🏻Building your agency, power, and mastery. �🏻Taking full responsibility for yourself. �🏻Changing your environment to one with less risk or more opportunity. �🏻Networking with others to share risks and opportunities.

This is what I teach men and women who come to me looking to change their lives and have happier families. Even in this chaotic world, you can live a good life if you know how.

Bonus: Here are some bad distortions of the four healthy modes.

�🏻Risk seeking

This is when someone looks for opportunities to fail and self-sabotage in ways that give them plausible deniability. Very unhealthy and unsustainable.

�🏻Opportunity avoiding

This is when someone actively seeks to avoid help and opportunities presented to them by others because of a fear of success or a fear of associated risks.

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In future posts I will be showing you how shifting modes will help you in romantic relationships, business, career and health.