Riley's Blog

Burn your safety nets

Stop treating life like an index fund. If you want to be exceptional in anything, then you can't spread your bets. Every big decision that you make should be all in on. You should close off all escape routes before you even feel tempted to take one. Diversification is your enemy. Leverage is your best friend.

Every bet you place should kill you if you lose it. And if you lose it, then you have nothing to lose, and everything to gain. Stop obsessing over the worst case scenarios and start obsessing over the best case scenarios. Be delusional. Over and over again. Until your delusions become a reality.

Light your safety nets on fire and watch them burn. Put every single chip you have in the middle on what scares you the most. Make success your only option. Get in the arena. Live to see the you, that bets on you.