upside - by Ava - bookbear express

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I meet up with a subscriber who has become a friend. We go to Dalva, though he doesn’t drink. We talk about fear. I tell him about my life and he says: you seem to value upside as much you you value downside

Charline von Heyl, Vandals Without Sandals, 2018 I meet up with a subscriber who has become a friend. We go to Dalva, though he doesn’t drink. We talk about fear. I tell him about my life and he says: you seem to value upside as much you you value downside. Most people are obsessed with potential downside. There’s a term for it, of course: loss aversion. People tend to value what they might lose as twice as much as what they might gain. I must have read about this somewhere, it’s one of those ubiquitous concepts you can’t escape, but I had never thought about it deeply until that moment.…

upside - by Ava - bookbear express

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