Короткое видео, в котором Нейт Сильвер, известный нам как автор книги «‎Сигнал и шум», рассказывает why risk-takers win. И это уже идеи из его относительно свежей «‎On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything».

Так вот, risk-takers win благодаря этим 13 привычкам:

1. Successful risk-takers are cool under pressure
They don’t try to be heroes, but they can execute when the chips are down.

2. Successful risk-takers have courage
They’re insanely competitive and their attitude is: bring it on.

3. Successful risk-takers have strategic empathy
They put themselves in their opponent’s shoes.

4. Successful risk-takers are process oriented, not results oriented
They play the long game.

5. Successful risk-takers take shots
They are explicitly aware of the risks they’re taking—and they’re comfortable with failure.

6. Successful risk-takers take a raise-or-fold attitude toward life
They abhor mediocrity and they know when to quit.

7. Successful risk-takers are prepared
They make good intuitive decisions because they’re well trained—not because they «wing it».

8. Successful risk-takers have selectively high attention to detail
They understand that attention is a scarce resource and think carefully about how to allocate it.

9. Successful risk-takers are adaptable
They are good generalists, taking advantage of new opportunities and responding to new threats.

10. Successful risk-takers are good estimators
They are Bayesians, comfortable quantifying their intuitions and working with incomplete information.

11. Successful risk-takers try to stand out, not fit in
They have independence of mind and purpose.

12. Successful risk-takers are conscientiously contrarian
They have theories about why and when the conventional wisdom is wrong.

13. Successful risk-takers are not driven by money
They live on the edge because it’s their way of life.

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