ericyakes on Nostr: One of the most valuable lessons I've learned thus far: Rational decisions can lead ...

One of the most valuable lessons I've learned thus far:

Rational decisions can lead to a life without meaning

From the perspective of modern financial theory - the rational person should take that corporate job and compound savings over your life in a diversified portfolio minimizing asset class correlation until you're 60 and retire with $5M

That's rational.

Now some people realize that those investments are all just propped up by perpetual stimulus and because of this your $5M will be raped by inflation by the time you need it

That's step 1 and you buy #bitcoin  to protect yourself

What few people realize is that nobody created anything memorable for world by taking that corporate job in the first place

And few ever will because entrepreneurship isn't rational - the statistics support that you should expect to fail

Rational decision making is based on minimizing risk in proportion to positive outcome

Of course, minimizing risk good - but it often leads to decisions based in fear and compromise

and those little decisions of compromise compound over decades until you wake up wondering how you got here and why you're doing it all in the first place

Entrepreneurship is the opposite of this

It is venturing into the unknown and having the courage to trust your character and instincts

It fundamentally requires faith. Faith in yourself, or your god, or whatever.

Often it is the decisions that provide us the most meaning that are the least rational but our fear of the unknown or what others think prevents us from following them.

Making irrational decisions to avoid a life of compromise and pursue something that is truly meaningful is deeply human.

That's what living is.

Rational decisions are necessary and the mode of our decision making but don't throw away your life and humanity in their name.

True rationality is pursuing decisions that pave a path of meaning.