Improving Your Life Through Asymmetric Opportunities | MTFP Ep.77

An asymmetric opportunity is one that has huge potential upside and very limited downside. On the other hand, asymmetric risks have very little upside, but lots of downside. After learning from people like Nassim Taleb and Naval Ravikant about these topics, I wanted to spread this concept to others. We have limited time in the day, so thinking about asymmetric opportunities could point towards what's worth doing. In this solo episode, I wanted to give a few examples that have impacted my life, along with giving my thoughts on other examples people have listed.

**Asymmetric Opportunities**

James Clear: writing a book, investing in a startup, investing in the stock market (though generally less asymmetric than startups).

Naval Ravikant: Start a company, create a book, podcast, video, blog, create a (software) product, go on many first dates, go to a cocktail party, read a Lindy book, move to a big city, tweet, ask out a stranger.

Nate Green: Learn to blog, start to meditate, leave your phone at home, learn marketing and sales, live in a less-developed country for a month, learn to cook, call your grandparents.

**Asymmetric Risks**

Nate Green: Texting and driving, cheating on spouse, buying things I couldn't afford with credit cards, constantly seeking new things to learn while neglecting to practice stuff I already knew, talking shit/gossiping about people who weren't around in order to impress the people that were around, taking out a $35,000 loan to start my own personal training studio (I made way more money and had less headaches when I trained clients at a health club).

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