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You Can’t Win 🥇 Without Tempting Loss 😢

Dre Baldwin
3 min readFeb 6, 2024

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The best times of your life were the times when you stopped complying, following, and listening to “good advice” and did what the fuck you wanted to do — THEN proved yourself RIGHT.

Think of the times in your life when you have inspired yourself.

They all involved risk.

The key to a winning relationship is loving while knowing your heart is at risk.

A partner can cheat, leave you, or decide they no longer want to be there.

The key to entrepreneurial success is putting money into something from which you may not make your money back.

We have an ad campaign running now that’s several thousand dollars in, and hasn’t yet produced a dollar in returns.

The key to successful boxing is staying close enough to your opponent to hit them — which means you risk getting hit yourself.

Move far enough away to not get hit, and you can’t land a punch.

The key to WINNING — in anything — is positioning yourself to where you can also LOSE. but you play anyway.

Circumstances that shield you from any possible loss have a trade-off: Your winning possibilities are limited.

Aiming to win while minimizing your chances of losing is called “hedging your bet.”

In the micro, this is possible and even preferable. Traders do it — “if the price of Stock X goes below $100, sell everything.”

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Dre Baldwin
Dre Baldwin

Written by Dre Baldwin

The Discipline to Produce Your Best On Your Toughest Days. It ain’t for everybody. #TheThirdDay Creator of #WorkOnYourGame. DreAllDay.com

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